Full title
Calendar and Dates in Jubilees’ Garden of Eden Story
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Research notes
SB/not checked/07/10/2021
Reference type
Year
2021
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Harvard Theological Review
Volume
114
Issue / Series Volume
3
Abbreviated Series Name
HTR
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication
Cambridge
Pages
305-327
Work type
Label
11/10/2021
Abstract
Calendar dates in Jubilees’ Garden of Eden story have led some to question the nature of the book’s presupposed calendar and others to conclude that the passage is redacted. Close reading of the text shows that the passage was carefully constructed and the work of one author who took pains not to jeopardize the calendar promoted elsewhere in the book. Confusion arises when scholars subordinate the calendar to the book’s chronological system; they should be kept distinct. The author uses the recurrence of calendar dates to connect events to each other typologically and to an underlying narrative pattern, which, like the calendar, is founded on the annual cycle of agricultural labor.
Primary Texts: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha