Jubilees as the Composition of One Author?
The essay evaluates three recent hypotheses about subsequent modifications to the original text of the Book of Jubilees: (1) addition of eschatological texts (C. Berner), (2) interpolation of a series of passages (J. Kugel), and (3) addition of legal sections to pre-existing rewritten stories and en...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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Revue de Qumran
Year: 2014, Volume: 26, Issue: 4, Pages: 501-516 |
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| Summary: | The essay evaluates three recent hypotheses about subsequent modifications to the original text of the Book of Jubilees: (1) addition of eschatological texts (C. Berner), (2) interpolation of a series of passages (J. Kugel), and (3) addition of legal sections to pre-existing rewritten stories and encasing both types of material in a chronological framework (M. Segal). All three hypotheses as formulated by these scholars are found to be unconvincing, although the third in a reformulated way provides a more defensible account of the evidence.\n4207 \n4207 |
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| ISSN: | 2506-7567 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Revue de Qumran
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/RQ.26.4.3178207 |