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| Version | Modern or critical edition | Selected manuscript/s |
|---|---|---|
 Ethiopic Jubilees - in Ge'ez (Not included in the Beta Israel biblical canon, but included in the Beta Israel "secondary canon") | መጽሐፈ ፡ ኩፋሌ ። ዐይን: James C. VanderKam see also: an earlier critical edition from August Dillman; another early critical edition from R.H. Charles, alongside Greek and Latin sources when extant. |
Likely typical "early" mss.:EAP 704/1/5 (early 15th c., incomplete: contains Jubilees 1:20-6:33); EMML 9001 (15th c.) [p: 129]; EAP 704/2/6 (1595-1605) |
| Version | Modern or critical edition | Selected manuscript/s |
|---|---|---|
 Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments of Jubilees (likely transmitted both as a complete book in one or two scrolls, and as smaller collections of Jubilees material) - in Hebrew | מגילת ספר היובלים מקור: מאגרים |
Fragments likely originally part of "complete" Book of Jubilees scrolls:1Q17, 1Q18, 2Q19, 3Q5, 4Q219, 4Q223-224 (4Qpap-jubilees-h). |
 Latin Book of Jubilees (only partially extant) - in Latin | parvae genesis fons: Jubilees Palimpsest Project, citing Ceriani. see also: same text in the Leiden Critical Pseudepigrapha, Ceriani's original 1861 edition, Charles' edition parallel to the Ge'ez. |
Palimpsest Biblioteca Ambrosiana C 73 inf.: reconstruction of original page structure with links to images, images of palimpsest (must navigate to "Ambrosiana_C73inf (Latin Moses)") |
| Version | Modern or critical edition | Selected manuscript/s |
|---|---|---|
 Dead Sea Scrolls Pseudo-Jubilees fragments (from Qumran and Masada). Likely representing the transmission of Jubilees-related material separately from the "complete" Book of Jubilees. - in Hebrew |
מגילת סיפורי תורה (4Q225, 226, 227), 4Q228, 4Q482, Masada 1j. מקור: מאגרים | 4Q225, 4Q226, 4Q227, 4Q228, 4Q482, 4Q483, Masada 1j. |
 Aramaic Levi Document (a work which likely served as a source document for Jubilees) - in Jewish Aramaic (with parts preserved in Greek and Syriac translations) |
Aramaic Levi Document (Qumran fragments) מקור: CAL Aramaic Levi Document (Geniza, Greek, and Syriac fragments) מקור: R.H. Charles complete transcription of all fragments by Greenfield, Stone, and Eshel (pp. 56-109) (paywall at this link) |
Most Qumran Aramaic Levi Document fragments, Qumran fragments including A.L.D. with other compositions: 4Q214, 4Q213. Geniza fragments: Cambridge ms. T-S 16.94, Bodleian ms. Heb. c.27: f. 56a, f. 56b |
Although the "complete" book of Jubilees fell out of favour by late antiquity outside of Ethiopia, collections of Jubilees-related material, which seem to have already been circulating at Qumran, continued to circulate and pop up within various works of biblical commentary and midrash in Greek, Syriac, Latin, and Hebrew.
Examples of such Jubilees-influenced material include:
The book of Jubilees is a collection of traditions related primarily to the book of Genesis.
