Full title
Reading an Outsider: Lot in Jubilees
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Research notes
NR\Reader checked\03/06/2015
Reference type
Year
2015
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
Volume
24
Issue / Series Volume
3
Abbreviated Series Name
JSP
Pages
151-181
Work type
Label
18/05/2015
Abstract
This article examines the characterization of Lot in Jubilees and considers how it relates to the centrality of covenant in the book. The article suggests that the author of Jubilees systematically reworked the Genesis account so as to remove any possibility of interpreting Lot positively, and argues that a wholly negative portrayal of Lot was important to uphold the strict bifurcation between covenant and non-covenant peoples. A comparison with other Second Temple period works serves to demonstrate further the particular choices and emphases of the author of Jubilees.