Jubilees

GPTKB entity

Statements (46)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf ancient Jewish religious text
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Lesser_Genesis
gptkb:Book_of_Jubilees
gptkbp:author unknown
gptkbp:category New Testament apocrypha
Second Temple period literature
gptkbp:citation gptkb:Qumran_community
early Christian writers
gptkbp:dateWritten 2nd century BCE
gptkbp:emphasizes circumcision
purity laws
observance of the Sabbath
calendar of 364 days
gptkbp:focusesOn division of history into jubilees (49-year periods)
gptkbp:genre theologian
New Testament apocrypha
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Jubilees
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Qumran_community
later Jewish and Christian apocrypha
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Enochic_literature
gptkb:Book_of_Exodus
gptkb:Book_of_Genesis
gptkbp:language gptkb:Hebrew
gptkbp:mentions gptkb:Abraham
gptkb:Angel
gptkb:Moses
gptkb:Noah
patriarchs
gptkbp:preservedIn gptkb:Ethiopian_Orthodox_Church
gptkbp:setting revelation to Moses on Mount Sinai
gptkbp:source gptkb:Dead_Sea_Scrolls
gptkbp:status non-canonical in most Christian and Jewish traditions
canonical in Ethiopian Orthodox Church
gptkbp:structure divided into 50 chapters
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Exodus
gptkb:Genesis
gptkbp:survivesIn Ge'ez manuscripts
fragments in Greek
fragments in Hebrew
fragments in Latin
fragments in Syriac
gptkbp:theme chronology of creation to Moses
emphasis on law and covenant
rewriting of Genesis and Exodus
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Ethiopian_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5