Enoch and the Mosaic Torah- The Evidence of Jubilees

James C. VanderKam

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The EMML catalogues published since 1989 list no more copies of Jubilees. A
search of all the catalogues does reveal some texts that are of interest for the
study of the book in Ethiopic. Included among other items in the following
numbers are:

#1276 (mid-20th century): an Amharic commentary on Jubilees (folios

I96a-207b)

#1281 (1973): an Amharic commentary on Jubilees (1948-2333)

#1693 (1865-1913): notes of commentary on Jubilees (i36b-i42a)

#1694 (1910?): an Amharic commentary on Jubilees (92a-i07b)

#1835 (15th century): among many homilies are ones in honor of St.

Ura'el (Uriel, folios i66a-i79b) based in part on Jubilees (174b), of

St. Fanu'el (i9ob-20oa), in which the emperor Zar'a Ya'qob's favor­

ite quotation from Jubilees is included (Jub 2:1; folio 192a), and of

St. Sadu'el (226a-237b), based on Enoch, Ezekiel, and Jubilees

(229b)

#1847 (1944/1945): an Amharic commentary on Jubilees (77b-8ib)

#2436 (17th century): notes concerning the book of Jubilees (118b-

120ab)

#2849 (18th century): folios 3a-92b contain a Ge'ez grammar and vo­

cabulary; apparently in a section on the meanings of words in dif­

ferent books, Jubilees is included (72b)

#4769 (19th century): parts of Jubilees (99a-i26b)

#4493(1528): in a Horologium (44a-iooa), two passages from Jubilees

are included (2:4? [75b-76b] and 39:13-22 |y6b-77a]).

Although many more texts are available, the last catalogue (vol. 10) from the
EMML project was published in 1993, so there has been a delay. The Web site
says volume 11 should be appearing soon.
My studies of the individual Ethiopic manuscripts and comparisons of