A Walk through Jubilees
Studies in the Book of Jubilees and the World of its Creation
Biographical note
James Kugel, Starr Professor of Hebrew Literature (emeritus) at Harvard University, is a specialist in the Hebrew Bible and Jewish writings of the Second Temple period. His books include The Idea of Biblical Poetry, In Potiphar’s House, The Bible As It Was, The God of Old, The Ladder of Jacob, and How to Read the Bible.
Readership
Scholars and students of the Hebrew Bible and the history of its interpretation, as well as specialists in the early history of Judaism and Christianity.
Table of contents
1. A Walk Through Jubilees: an Exegetical Commentary
2. The Sources of Torah in Jubilees
3. On the Contradictions in Jubilees
4. Divine Epithets in Jubilees
5. Which Is Older, Jubilees or the Genesis Apocryphon?
6. The Aramaic Levi Document and the Book of Jubilees
7. 4Q225 “Pseudo-Jubilees”
8. Jubilees, Philo, and the Problem of Genesis
2. The Sources of Torah in Jubilees
3. On the Contradictions in Jubilees
4. Divine Epithets in Jubilees
5. Which Is Older, Jubilees or the Genesis Apocryphon?
6. The Aramaic Levi Document and the Book of Jubilees
7. 4Q225 “Pseudo-Jubilees”
8. Jubilees, Philo, and the Problem of Genesis
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