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Please try again later. I have heard many things about the "Book of Jubilies. Rabbi Simon Altaf clarified many of the false interpretation of other authors who inaccurately defined meanings and Hebraic mindset.
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Great insights into the scriptures from Hebrew teachings. These books a of great value to our over all understanding. There are many translations of the book of Jubilees but this author takes it back to the Hebrew roots.
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Very well written and should be owned by anyone who wants to really know how the days were marked by the ancients as opposed to the current Greco-Roman model that everyone is so accustomed to now. This is the best translation of this book that I have read. It is easier to read and understand while the other translation of this book was very uninterresting and boring. See all 5 reviews.
There's a problem loading this menu right now. Learn more about Amazon Prime. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. Get to Know Us. English Choose a language for shopping. Explore the Home Gift Guide. Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. I suspect everyone these days is aware of the Dead Sea Scrolls: These scrolls are the oldest surviving copies of many of the books that we have in the bible today and have taught biblical scholars much about our received texts.
Since the s, when these works began to be publicized, they have even impacted our bibles by providing or improving readings from our texts. There are new legends featuring bible characters, there are books of psalms with new psalms included, there are new books on laws and community life, there are commentaries on the bible mostly claiming that the End Is Near , and there are many copies of the bible itself.
Of course, this was pre-Christian times around BC up to the very early years AD and no New Testament books were discovered there, although there are a few tiny fragments which could be bits of the New Testament, but more likely are sources that the New Testament authors were quoting or common expressions. The Book of Jubilees is special because all evidence points to it being considered part of the bible of the Qumran group. So, what is the Book of Jubilees? The Book of Jubilees is essentially a retelling of Genesis through approximately Exodus 12, but with new stories added, old stories removed, and textual details massaged.
It begins with God calling Moses up onto Mount Sinai:. And it came to pass in the first year of the exodus of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the third month, on the sixteenth day of the month, that God spake to Moses, saying: After a brief passage where God reveals some of the future to Moses such as the destruction of the first temple , the narrative goes into more familiar territory:.
And the angel of the presence spake to Moses according to the word of the Lord, saying: Write the complete history of the creation, how in six days the Lord God finished all His works and all that He created, and kept Sabbath on the seventh day and hallowed it for all ages, and appointed it as a sign for all His works. For on the first day He created the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters and all the spirits which serve before him — the angels of the presence, and the angels of sanctification, and the angels of the spirit of the winds, and the angels of the spirit of the clouds, and of darkness, and of snow and of hail and of hoar frost, and the angels of the voices and of the thunder and of the lightning, and the angels of the spirits of cold and of heat, and of winter and of spring and of autumn and of summer and of all the spirits of his creatures which are in the heavens and on the earth, the abysses and the darkness, eventide, and the light, dawn and day, which He hath prepared in the knowledge of his heart.
And thereupon we saw His works, and praised Him, and lauded before Him on account of all His works; for seven great works did He create on the first day. And on the second day… Jubilees 2: Although the text especially in this passage is very different, the author begins a retelling from scratch of the book of Genesis and the first part of Exodus, from Adam to Moses. The text feels compelled, for example, to recite a list of different types of angels created by God. Who exactly is God working with? Christians could also see here a foreshadowing of Jesus. Jubilees knows Genesis and knows that passage to be a problem, but here we have a solution by showing the creation of angels.
This is just one example, but the text does this repeatedly: It is convinced that God created a perfect day year where each festival date falls on a Wednesday and the Sabbath arrives like clockwork every week, but more importantly on the same dates each year. It then adds this calendar system to all of the old stories, providing a consistent and dated narrative from creation up to the time of Moses.
And Cain took Awan his sister to be his wife and she bare him Enoch at the close of the fourth jubilee. And in the first year of the first week of the fifth jubilee, houses were built on the earth, and Cain built a city, and called its name after the name of his son Enoch. You can see the pedantic approach to dates and it is possible to start from the beginning and work forward, dating each and every event of Genesis. The remainder of the book follows largely the same pattern where the stories that we are familiar with are repeated with some variations, some explanations, or just removed.
Hello, I have just began to read Jubilees. Share your thoughts with other customers. Well done Rebbe Simon Altalf! In their quest for truth many people have traveled all over the world to the Buddhist Temples in Tibet, the Hindu Temples in India and some have gone to the pyramids of Egypt. Write a customer review. Write a customer review. Is this via the rapture or marching back on foot?