The Book of Jubilees: Rewritten Bible, Redaction, Ideology and Theology
Almost
all scholars have viewed the book of Jubilees as the work of a single
author, applying to the book methods of analysis determined primarily by
its literary genre, Rewritten Bible. This study suggests a new
approach, in light of numerous contradictions between the rewritten
stories on the one hand, and the juxtaposed legal passages and
chronological framework on the other. It is suggested here that the
editor of Jubilees adopted extant reworked sources, and added his own
legal and chronological framework. This proposed literary-critical
method is highly significant for the study of the book's worldview, as
is demonstrated by the analysis of passages in Jubilees that relate to
the origins of evil and of law in the world.
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