Guide for Test on Rewritten Bible

Sources

Jubilees 1–6, selections from 8–10, 15, 23

Comparisons with Genesis 1–3 and 1 Enoch

Terms and Concepts

Four assumptions (cryptic, perfect, relevant, divine)

Calendars

Historical context

Universalism and particularism

Eternal vs. temporal, origin of laws

Hierarchy of angels and humans

Two creation stories

Calendars

Sabbath

The number 22

Transcendence, omniscience, omnipotence

Two creation stories

Work

Original sin, the fall

Gymnasium, Hellenistic assimilation

Theodicy, explanations of suffering

Day of judgment

Day of Atonement

The Watchers, giants, demons

Enoch

Mastema and the demons

Relationship to apocalypses

Religion

Heavenly tablets

Calendars

Noachide laws, covenant of Noah

Conquest of Canaan

Circumcision

Conversion

Angelic princes of nations, roles of angels

Maccabean Revolt, Judah Maccabee

Eschatology

Afterlife