Full title
On Earth as in Heaven: The Restoration of Sacred Time and Sacred Space in the Book of Jubilees
Research notes
Reader Checked|14/11/2012 SE
Reference type
Editor(s)
Collins, John J.
Year
2005
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplement Series
Number of volumes
0
Issue / Series Volume
91
Publisher
Brill
Place of Publication
Leiden
Pages
x + 292
Alternative title
JSJSup
Label
18/04/2005
Abstract
This volume deals with the chronological and spatial conceptions underlying the Book of Jubilees, a Jewish apocalyptic writing of the mid-second century BCE, and shows how in these respects Jubilees forms a bridge between the earlier Enochic tradition and the later Qumran sectarian writings. The book argues essentially that for Jubilees, the consummation of the ages will effect the restoration of sacred space and sacred time, so that all things correspond to God s original will for the creation on earth as in heaven. This book has important implications not only for the study of Jubilees itself and other Jewish writings of the Second Temple period, but also for research on early Christian chiliasm.
Primary Texts: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Passage
1
Passage
23