The Book of Jubilees

The Little Genesis

The Book of Jubilees is a retelling of Genesis and the first part of Exodus, written as if dictated by an angel to Moses on Mount Sinai. It fills in the gaps of the Biblical narrative with extraordinary specificity: the names of the wives of the patriarchs, the precise dates of every event calculated according to a 364-day solar calendar, the pre-history of the fallen angels, and a detailed code o

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01 / Historical context

Written 2nd century BC. Canonical in Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Excluded from the Western Bible. Multiple copies found in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

02 / Why it matters

Moses received two accounts on Sinai. You were only given one.

From / associated with the text

““There will be those who will seek to make the day of turbulence an occasion of rest, and they will call the evil good, and the good evil.””

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The Book of Jubilees

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