Jubilees - ספר היובלים

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Canonical Versions

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	[incomplete - correct mss, no page numbers] Likely typical "early" mss.: EAP 704/1/5 (very incomplete); EMML 9001; Davies Dabra Bizan 1; EAP 704/2/6; Likely typical "modern" ms.: IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible) (1934) [p: ___] Beta Israel mss.: BL Or. 485; BZI 6001

Non-canonical versions

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). Fragments likely part of "redactions" of parts of Jubilees: 4Q176, 4Q216 (first sheet), 4Q217, 4Q218. Fragments likely originally part of smaller collections of Jubilees material: 2Q20, 4Q216, 4Q220, 4Q221, 4Q222, 11Q12.
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.	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)")

Related quasi-biblical texts

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.

Later citations of Jubilees-related Material

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:

• - A handful of citations in Greek, found within "catena" manuscripts.
• - A Syriac citation in BL Add. 14620, and a similar one in BL Add. 12154.
• - A Geniza fragment in Hebrew.
• - Various citations in Greek and Latin collected by Johann Fabricius: (first part), (second part).
• - Lists within the Syriac Anonymous Chronicle of 1234 (this link paywalled).
• - Several passages in Hebrew within Midrash Aggadah, Midrash Tadshe, and the Sefer Harefuot of Asaph the Healer. (See Martha Himmelfarb, "Between Temple and Torah", pp. 351-370.)

Significantly related biblical texts:

The book of Jubilees is a collection of traditions related primarily to the book of Genesis.

Chief Source / Further Reading:

The Many Forms of Jubilees: A Reassessment of the Manuscript Evidence from Qumran and the Lines of Transmission of the Parts and Whole of Jubilees
by Matthew P. Monger

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