Enoch and the Mosaic Torah- The Evidence of Jubilees

Jacques van Ruiten In this pericope the narrative in which the actions of Abram play a part is dominant. This was also true in t ...

Abram's Prayer everything in his) hand" (12:17c, i8e, io,f; cf. 12:20a, 2id, 22b), "to seek" (i2:i7d, 21b), "seed" (12:20c, 24a) ...

Jacques van Ruiten Noah's prayer (Jub 10:1-14) Abram's prayer (Jub 12:16-27) Cause for the prayer: dominion of the evil spirits ...

Abram's Prayer which they used to observe the omens of the sun, moon, and stars, and every heavenly sign" (8:3). These signs wer ...

Jacques van Ruiten ence of the evil spirits. In 10:5, the only place in Jubilees that explicitly refers to a connection between ...

Abram's Prayer exercise his authority among mankind (10:8), God allows him a tenth of them, and gives orders to bind 90 percent ...

Jacques van Ruiten be studied, books that contain, among other things, medicines against the attacks of evil spirits. In conclus ...

Abram's Prayer B and do not deliver them into the hands of the nations, with the result that they rule over them (i9ef), C lest ...

Jacques van Ruiten takes the tables of the division of the years and starts to dictate to Moses the content of history (1:29-2:1 ...

Abram's Prayer the book. The prayers are caused by the threat of evil spirits. In the Bible there is no demonology. In Genesis o ...

Jacques van Ruiten An important element in the rewriting of Genesis and Exodus in the book of Jubi­ lees is the struggle agains ...

Reconsidering Jubilees: Prophecy and Exemplarity Hindy Najman What is at stake in how we characterize the book of Jubilees? Perh ...

Hindy Najman Suppose we characterize Jubilees as rewritten Bible. Then we are com­ mitting ourselves to the position that there ...

Reconsidering Jubilees: Prophecy and Exemplarity tions and texts that we have since come to know as Pentateuchal or pro­ phetic. ...

Hindy Najman copyists at Qumran.^6 Along these lines, Martha Himmelfarb suggests that "the existence [at Qumran] of a work or wo ...

Reconsidering Jubilees: Prophecy and Exemplarity apocalyptic vision, and inspired interpretation are all features of both exilic ...

Hindy Najman But what happens to the aspiration to perfection within a community that undergoes the destruction of its political ...

Reconsidering Jubilees: Prophecy and Exemplarity spiritual practices also constitute contexts within which texts can be ren­ der ...

Hindy Najman Now, I want to further develop this claim by examining the way the exemplar (the founding figure associated with th ...

Reconsidering Jubilees: Prophecy and Exemplarity strable on the basis of the textual witnesses from the period of second temple ...