Library/Old Testament pseudepigrapha
Book of Jubilees
A retelling of Genesis and part of Exodus on a 364-day calendar, with Watchers, Mastema, and a theology of times. It agrees with Enoch that the descent happened in Jared’s days and that the flood answers it.
- Status
- Ethiopian Orthodox canon
- Date
- c. 160–100 BCE
- Languages
- Hebrew (Qumran) · Geʿez (complete)
- Setting
- Sinai: an angel of the presence dictates Genesis–Exodus to Moses in jubilee-years
What it contains
- Creation to Exodus in jubilees
- Calendar law
- Watchers and Mastema
- Covenant of times
Why it sits outside most canons
Too sectarian in calendar and too expansive in angelology for rabbinic and Western canons. Ethiopia kept it.
Themes
- Calendar
- Watchers
- Mastema
- Law
- Times
Passages
Jubilees 4:15, 22
In the days of Jared the angels of the Lord descended and were named Watchers. They sinned with the daughters of men; Enoch testified against them.