Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>]

Sorry, I was working from memory.

Yes, indeed. Robert Henry Charles represented the mainstream view  
before the discovery of the DSS. As you rightly show he dates to late  
second century BCE.

However, the general point is still the same. Thanks for the  
correction, though. Do keep correcting me if I make any more slip ups.  
I'm new to Jubilees myself but am interested in putting it to the test  
to see how much of it we can trust.

James Christian



Quoting Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>:

> > You just did it again. We simply do not know this. The 'mainstream'
> > view was that Jubilees was authored in CE. Since the discovery of the
> > DSS this view has been abandoned and the new 'mainstream' view is
> > considerably different. No doubt, if we found some older manuscripts
> > there would be an even newer 'mainstream' view. While I don't, as yet,
> > have an opinion of the age of Jubilees we simply do not know how old
> > it is.
>
> James, I realize you have a point to make.  But your presentation of
> the book's authorship prior to the discovery of the DSS does not seem
> to me to be accurate.  See for example here, in the edition of the book
> of Jubilees published 1917:
> http://books.google.com/books?id=PuWw_Xji_VoC&pg=PA20
> (also available here: http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/jub/jub07.htm )
> So, how does that help in making your point?
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
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