Scholars working with ancient scrolls seek ways to extract maximum information from the
multitude of fragments. Various methods were applied to that end on the Dead Sea Scrolls …

An exegetical and diachronic survey of messianic texts from the Hebrew Bible and Jewish
tradition up through the first millennium CE. Jewish messianism can be traced back to the …

The final form of the book of Jubilees is commonly dated to the Hellenistic period. It may
come as no surprise, therefore, that various parallels between Jubilees and Greek …

Drawing on insights from the field of Book History, the article draws out connections between
the material aspects of the Qumran corpus on the one hand and textual pluriformity on the …

This paper examines the terminology related to demons in Jubilees. It argues that important
nuances have been lost in the process of translation. Specifically, it argues that the original …

This article adapts insights from Material Philology to rethink the reception of the Sibylline
Oracles by looking at the full range of evidence for the collection's early development and …

This dissertation has two primary objectives. The first is to put forward a new model for
understanding the textual variation that is attested across the thirteen manuscripts of the …

This project reimagines the textual history of the Animal Apocalypse, a subsection of an
early Jewish work called 1 Enoch, which narrates a history of the Israelites and their …

Scholarly scrutiny of Paul's theology proper has recently produced a view that Paul's
reflections about God are axiomatic. As an exploration of the apostle Paul's creative …

1.1 Aim of the Research This study considers the use and interpretation of the Jacob Story in
the Book of Jubilees, an early Jewish writing from the second temple period, which is often …