Some Questions with Regard to a Supposed Interpolator in the Book of "Jubilees" Focused on the Fesitval of Weeks (Jub. 6:1-22)

This contribution brings forward some qustions with regard to Kugel's hypothesis about a supposed interpolator who would have inserted several additions in a nearly finished text of the book of Jubilees. Without denying the fact that there are tensions within the text of the book, the question remains whether these all disappear when the passages of the supposed interpolator are removed. Kugel asserts that a deterministic worldview. The unique relationship between God and Israel is incorporated in the order of the creation. Most important is the relativizing of the fact that they themselves invented these festivals before the Sinaitic covenant. The patriarchs celebrated these festivals before the Sinaitic covenant. The patriarchs celebrated them on earth in accordance with what was written on the heavenly tablets, and in accordance with how they had already been celebrated in heaven from the time of the creation. In contrast to what Kugel asserts, the strong parallelism between Jub. 14 and Jub. 15 makes clear that Abraham celebrates not two differnt festivals but just one, the very same Festival of Weeks, in which he renews the covenant in the middle of the third month.