Thread:Superdadsuper/@comment-37091872-20181026000419/@comment-5175866-20181026024419

To be honest, I do not know a whole lot about the content of the Book of Jubilees. Jubilee is considered to be pseudepigraphic, which means it claims to be written by someone who did not write it. Unfortunately, I know little about those and apocryphal books. From my basic research on Jubilees, it claims to be a corroboration of the Book of Genesis and advocates a solar calendar, versus a Hebrew lunar calendar. Jubilee may possibly contain some historical facts. It is not part of the Bible and does not have the same level of authority.

Again, I haven't studied it but I would say what is in the book is likely not factual. The reason is that it very specifically tries to give an alternative interpretation to the chronology of Genesis (thus the entire Bible) that is out of line. The Hebrews readers of Genesis and the Pentateuch would have recognized a lunar calendar, not a solar calendar. This book seems to be trying to reinterpret what the original meaning of Genesis is. In today's world many theories try to do this by inserting a meaning into the book (eisegesis) that does not align with the original intent. Jubilees is not special. There is an apocryphal (non-scriptural) book of enoch that is also "alternative" version of Genesis.

I think this is very interesting. I hope my pursuit of biblical studies can afford me time to study this, but I must focus my efforts and time on the Bible itself (as must this website) rather than other Jewish literature.

In Christ, Superdadsuper, Sr. Content and Community Manager (Bible Wiki) 02:44, October 26, 2018 (UTC)