Enoch and the Mosaic Torah- The Evidence of Jubilees

Esther Eshel

found in ALD 4:9-5:8 (and TPL 8:1; 9:1-6) occur earlier in the story in Jubi­
lees. The parallel stories are set out in the following table:^4

ALD Jubilees

31:1 Start off in Shechem

31:3 Jacob goes to Bethel, invites Isaac and

Rebecca to come to Bethel

31:4-5a Isaac refuses, invites Jacob, Levi, and

Judah to go with Isaac to the residence of

Abraham

31:5b-29 The meeting of Jacob and Rebecca

with Levi and Judah and their blessing

31:30-32 Upon Isaac's orders, Jacob returns to

Bethel with Rebecca and her nurse Deborah

4:9-12 Levi's vision of investiture 32:1 Levi's dream at Bethel, of being appointed

to the eternal priesthood of the Most High

5:1a "We" go to Isaac

5:1b Isaac's blessing of Levi

5:2 Jacob gives a tithe to Levi 32:2-3a Jacob giving the tithe;

Birth of Benjamin; Jacob counting his sons —

Levi as the tenth son

32:3b Levi as the tithe

Jacob invests Levi 32:3c Jacob invests Levi

32:4-15 Jacob's celebration of the Festival of

Booths

5:3-5 Levi offers sacrifices and blesses his

father and brothers in Bethel

5:6 Levi leaves Bethel and encamps at the

residence of Abraham

Jubilees' additions to the biblical narrative are inserted between the
sections of the Bethel narrative in Gen 35, specifically after v. 4.^5 Their pur-

4. A comparison of these parallels is found in Greenfield, Stone, and Eshel, The Ara­
   maic Levi Document, 151.
   5.1. C. VanderKam, "lubilees' Exegetical Creation of Levi the Priest," in From Revela­
   tion to Canon: Studies in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Literature (Leiden and Boston: