The Perspective from Mt. Sinai: The Book of Jubilees and Exodus

Full title
The Perspective from Mt. Sinai: The Book of Jubilees and Exodus
Research notes

MDE/reader checked/30/12/2015

Reference type
Author(s)
Halpern-Amaru, Betsy
Year
2015
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements
Issue / Series Volume
21
Abbreviated Series Name
JAJSup
Publisher
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Place of Publication
Göttingen
Work type
Label
12/10/2015
Abstract

Although termed “the little Genesis”, the Book of Jubilees is significantly engaged with Exodus. It reworks key Exodus narratives, develops modules of Exodus law, and highlights Exodus motifs.
|The approach of this study is a literary one that treats Jubilees as a unitary text that may reflect the work of a single author or of a final editor. The analysis draws particular attention to manipulations of temporal and textual perspective that transform Exodus narratives, facilitate the hermeneutical elaborations of Exodus law, and effect cohesion in the revelation that is the Book of Jubilees.

Primary Texts: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
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