Jubilees as the composition of one author?

Updated by: 
Neta Rozenblit
Research notes: 
NR\Reader checked\12/05/2015
Reference type: 
Journal Article
Author(s): 
VanderKam, James C.
year: 
2014
Full title: 

Jubilees as the composition of one author?

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
Revue de Qumran
Volume: 
104
Issue / Series Volume: 
26/4
Pages: 
501-516
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

The essay evaluates three recent hypotheses about subsequent modifications to the original text of the Book of Jubilees: (1) addition of eschatological texts (C. Berner), (2) interpolation of a series of passages (J. Kugel), and (3) addition of legal sections to pre-existing rewritten stories and encasing both types of material in a chronological framework (M. Segal). All three hypothesis as formulated by these scholars are found to be unconvincing, although the third in a reformulated way provides a more defensible account of the evidence.

Label: 
23/03/2015
Record number: 
100 096