Jubilees

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Jubilees is an ancient Jewish religious work from the Second Temple period that retells and expands upon the narratives of Genesis and Exodus, often considered part of the pseudepigrapha.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Second Temple period work
ancient Jewish religious text
biblical paraphrase
pseudepigraphal work
rewritten Bible
associatedWith Dead Sea Scrolls
associatedWithPeriod Second Temple Judaism
canonicalStatusInJudaism non‑canonical
canonicalStatusInMostChristianTraditions apocryphal
claimsAuthorshipBy Moses
contains angelology
chronological schematization of history
demonology
elaborated flood narrative
expanded patriarchal narratives
coversBiblicalRange Creation to Sinai
dateOfComposition 2nd century BCE
emphasizesTheme Sabbath observance
covenant
festival calendar
purity laws
separation from Gentiles
foundAt Qumran
genre legal‑narrative composition
midrashic narrative
hasLanguage Geʿez
Greek (fragmentary)
Hebrew (Qumran fragments)
Hebrew (original, lost)
Latin (fragmentary)
Syriac (fragmentary)
hasTitle Book of Jubilees
Leptogenesis
Lesser Genesis
influenced Qumran community halakhah
later Jewish calendar discussions
narratedBy angel of the presence
opposesPractice intermarriage with Gentiles
preservedIn Ethiopian Orthodox biblical canon
promotesCalendarType 364‑day solar calendar
relatedWork 1 Enoch
Genesis Apocryphon
religiousTradition Judaism
retellsText Book of Genesis
early chapters of Exodus
scholarlyCategory Old Testament pseudepigrapha
stressesInstitution Sabbath
circumcision
festivals
structureBasedOn jubilee periods of forty‑nine years

Referenced by (3)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Jubilees ("Book of Jubilees")
hasTitle
Second Temple Judaism
producedText
Jubilees ("Old Testament pseudepigrapha")
scholarlyCategory

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