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Book of Jubilees

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Jewish retelling of Genesis and Exodus framed as angelic teaching to Moses, adding chronology, narratives and interpretation.

Modern diagram of Jubilees10: permission for one tenth, confinement of nine tenths, and Noah’s remedies; narrative proportions, not a historical census
Modern diagram of Jubilees10: permission for one tenth, confinement of nine tenths, and Noah’s remedies; narrative proportions, not a historical censusOriginal explanatory diagram: IL Archive, 2026 · CC0Image source

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The frame places revelation at SinaiSinai: peninsula and biblical mountainSinai is a peninsula in eastern Egypt; in the Torah the name also denotes the mountain of revelation to MosesGlossary · Click to read the explanation; narrative time differs from composition. Chapter10 combines harmful spirits, divine permission and NoahNoahNoah is the flood-story figure in Genesis and a prophet in the Qur’anGlossary · Click to read the explanation’s remedies. The diagram concerns this passage only; it is neither a manuscript image nor a historical census of demons. [6] [20]

References and notes

  1. Complete passage in Charles’s historical translation. Jubilees 10:1–17; R. H. Charles (1902) Return to the text ↑
  2. Selected passages; body dates BCE. Kristen H. Lindbeck (2025), sections on Job, Jubilees and the Akedah Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 2 · 13 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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