Lesser Genesis

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ancient Jewish religious text pseudepigraphal work rewritten Bible

Lesser Genesis is an alternate title for the ancient Jewish religious work known as the Book of Jubilees, which retells and expands upon the narratives of Genesis and part of Exodus.

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Label	Occurrences
Lesser Genesis canonical	1
Little Genesis	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Jewish religious text ⓘ pseudepigraphal work ⓘ rewritten Bible ⓘ
associatedWith	Second Temple Judaism ⓘ
basedOn	Book of Genesis ⓘ early chapters of Exodus ⓘ
canonicalStatus	canonical in Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ⓘ non-canonical in Rabbinic Judaism ⓘ non-canonical in most Christian traditions ⓘ
category	Old Testament pseudepigrapha ⓘ
centralTheme	angelic mediation of revelation ⓘ covenant and law ⓘ division of history into jubilees (49-year periods) ⓘ
claimsAuthorshipBy	Moses ⓘ
contains	chronological system based on jubilees and weeks of years ⓘ interpretations of biblical laws ⓘ legal material related to festivals and calendar ⓘ
dateOfComposition	2nd century BCE (approximate) ⓘ
emphasizes	solar calendar of 364 days ⓘ
expands	early Exodus traditions ⓘ patriarchal narratives of Genesis ⓘ primeval history (Creation, Flood, Tower of Babel) ⓘ stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph ⓘ
focusesOn	heavenly tablets as source of law and history ⓘ strict observance of the law ⓘ
foundIn	Dead Sea Scrolls ⓘ surface form: Dead Sea Scrolls (Hebrew fragments)
genre	biblical paraphrase ⓘ midrashic narrative ⓘ
hasAlternateTitle	Jubilees ⓘ Leptogenesis ⓘ Lesser Genesis ⓘ surface form: Little Genesis
hasTitle	Jubilees ⓘ surface form: Book of Jubilees
influenced	Essenes ⓘ surface form: Qumran community (Dead Sea Scrolls milieu)
language	Ge'ez ⓘ surface form: Geʿez (Ethiopic) Greek (fragmentary) ⓘ Hebrew (originally) ⓘ Latin (fragmentary) ⓘ Syriac (fragmentary) ⓘ
narrativeScope	from Creation to the giving of the Law at Sinai ⓘ
placeOfOrigin	Eretz HaKodesh ⓘ surface form: Land of Israel
preservedCompletelyIn	Ethiopic manuscripts ⓘ surface form: Geʿez (Ethiopic) manuscripts
purportsToBe	revelation given to Moses on Mount Sinai ⓘ
relatedWork	1 Enoch ⓘ Genesis Apocryphon ⓘ
religiousTradition	Judaism ⓘ
subject	covenant between God and Israel ⓘ creation and early human history ⓘ patriarchs of Israel ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jubilees → hasTitle → Lesser Genesis ⓘ

Lesser Genesis → hasAlternateTitle → Lesser Genesis ⓘ

this entity surface form: Little Genesis