Reading an Outsider: Lot in Jubilees

Updated by: 
Neta Rozenblit
Research notes: 
NR\Reader checked\03/06/2015
Reference type: 
Journal Article
Author(s): 
Snyder, Josey
year: 
2015
Full title: 

Reading an Outsider: Lot in Jubilees

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: 
Essay/Monograph
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.

URL: 
http://jsp.sagepub.com/content/current
Label: 
18/05/2015
Record number: 
100 317