Noah's Sacrifice and the Relation between Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon.
The similarities between the Genesis Apocryphon and Jubilees have been noted since the former's publication. Although distinct texts, both share a range of interpretative traditions in their retellings of the stories in Genesis, which suggests a genetic relationship between the two. One such shared...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 144; no. 3; pp. 495 - 513 |
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2025
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