Jubilees Fragments (Qumran)

The Jubilees Fragments from Qumran are Hebrew manuscripts of the Book of Jubilees, a retelling of Genesis and Exodus, found at Qumran.|||Fragments of 14–15 Hebrew manuscripts from Qumran Caves 1, 2, 3, 4, and 11 (1Q17–18, 2Q19–20, 3Q5, 4Q176, 4Q216–4Q228, 11Q12).|||Copied between the 2nd century BCE and the 1st century CE.|||Not canonical in any tradition. Canonical only in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.|||Hebrew fragments of Jubilees from Qumran prove that it was an authoritative text in Second Temple Judaism. Quoted in the Damascus Document.|||VanderKam, J. C. The Book of Jubilees. Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.|||Milik, J. T. " Jubilées." In Qumran Cave 4.VIII. Oxford, 1997.|||Wintermute, O. S. " Jubilees." In The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 2. Doubleday, 1985.|||Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library|https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/|View Jubilees fragments.;; Wikipedia — Book of Jubilees|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Jubilees|Background and scholarship.|||" For the days of the years of the world are fifty jubilees." — Jubilees 50:2