The Book of Jubilees and the Temple ScrollNew Oil TS 21:12-23:2 Jub 7:36
Jub 32:12-14
Wood Offering TS 23:1-25:1 Jub 21:12-14
Day of Remembrance TS 25:2-10 Jub 6:23-29
Jub 12:16
Jub 31:3
Day of Atonement TS 25:10-27:10 Jub 34:12-19
Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret
TS 27:10—29:1 Jub 16:19-31
Jub 8:18
Jub 32:27-29Our investigation of the festival sacrificial laws of the book of Jubilees
and the Temple Scroll found some cases of agreement, and some of absolute
disagreement. For example, the two sources disagree about the daily sacri
fice. Jub 6:14 refers to the daily sacrifice, morning and evening, in connection
with the covenant that God made with Noah after the flood. The text is not
explicit as to whether the offering is to be provided by the priests or paid for
out of public funds, a matter of great controversy in rabbinic accounts of the
Boethusians (or Sadducees in some texts).^45 Nonetheless, v. 13 indicates that
the commandment of daily sacrifice has been given to the children of Israel.
According to v. 14, "They shall observe it... that they may continue suppli
cating... that they may keep it." This emphasis on the collective obligation
of Israel can only indicate that the author of Jubilees, like the Pharisees, re
quired that the daily offerings be a communally discharged obligation pro
vided by the people as a whole. Jubilees indicates that the sacrifices serve to
"seek forgiveness on your (Noah's) behalf perpetually before the Lord," an
idea for which no parallel can be found in the Bible.
Temple Scroll 13:10-16 presents the laws of the daily sacrifice, based on
Exod 29:38-42 and Num 28:3-8. It is impossible to tell because of a break in
the text whether the author used the plural formulation of Numbers or the
singular of Exodus. Some support for the notion that the author was of the
opinion that the offerings could be contributed from private funds comes
from the provision that the hide of the burnt offering may be kept by the
- L. Finkelstein, The Pharisees: The Sociological Background of Their Faith, 2 vols., 3d
ed., Morris Loeb Series (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1966), 710-16;
V. Noam, Megillat Ta'anit: ha-Nusahim, Pishram, Toledotehem, be-eeruf Mahadurah
Biqqortit (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press, 2003), 165-73.