The Book of Jubilees - Full - Alexander Scourby - Audio Bible

The Book of Jubilees~~~Chapter 01 - 00:00:00Chapter 02 - 00:07:48Chapter 03 - 00:15:36Chapter 04 - 00:22:42Chapter 05 - 00:30:51Chapter 06 - 00:36:41Chapter 07 - 00:45:00Chapter 08 - 00:52:52Chapter 09 - 01:00:12Chapter 10 - 01:03:16Chapter 11 - 01:10:00Chapter 12 - 01:15:28Chapter 13 - 01:21:27Chapter 14 - 01:26:37Chapter 15 - 01:30:33Chapter 16 - 01:36:59Chapter 17 - 01:42:59Chapter 18 - 01:46:54Chapter 19 - 01:50:02Chapter 20 - 01:55:16Chapter 21 - 01:58:25Chapter 22 - 02:04:01Chapter 23 - 02:10:55Chapter 24 - 02:18:22Chapter 25 - 02:24:21Chapter 26 - 02:28:59Chapter 27 - 02:35:29Chapter 28 - 02:40:33Chapter 29 - 02:47:08Chapter 30 - 02:50:56Chapter 31 - 02:57:00Chapter 32 - 03:03:56Chapter 33 - 03:10:36Chapter 34 - 03:15:21Chapter 35 - 03:19:46Chapter 36 - 03:26:18Chapter 37 - 03:31:26Chapter 38 - 03:36:42Chapter 39 - 03:40:01Chapter 40 - 03:43:08Chapter 41 - 03:46:03Chapter 42 - 03:51:10Chapter 43 - 03:55:38Chapter 44 - 04:00:10Chapter 45 - 04:04:51Chapter 46 - 04:08:08Chapter 47 - 04:11:12Chapter 48 - 04:13:33Chapter 49 - 04:17:37Chapter 50 - 04:23:35~~~From https://www.ccel.orgTHE BOOK OF JUBILEES INTRODUCTIONSHORT ACCOUNT OF THE BOOK.The Book of Jubilees is in certain limited aspects the most important book in this volume for the student of religion. Without it we could of course have inferred from Ezra and Nehemiah, the Priests' Code, and the later chapters of Zechariah the supreme position that the law had achieved in Judaism, but without Jubilees we could hardly have imagined such an absolute supremacy as finds expression in this book. This absolute supremacy of the law carried with it, as we have seen in the General Introduction, the suppression of prophecy -at all events of the open exercise of the prophetic gifts. And yet these gifts persisted during all the so-called centuries of silence-from Malachi down to N.T. times, but owing to the fatal incubus of the law these gifts could not find expression save in pseudepigraphic literature. Thus Jubilees represents the triumph of the movement, which had been at work for the past three centuries or more.And yet this most triumphant manifesto of legalism contained within its pages the element that was destined to dispute its supremacy and finally to reduce the law to the wholly secondary position that alone it could rightly claim. This element of course is apocalyptic, which was the source of the higher theology in Judaism, and subsequently was the parent of Christianity, wherein apocalyptic ceased to be pseudonymous and became one with prophecy.The Book of Jubilees was written in Hebrew by a Pharisee between the year of the accession of Hyrcanus to the high priesthood in 135 and his breach with the Pharisees some years before his death in 105 B.C. It is the most advanced pre-Christian representative of the midrashic tendency, which has already been at work in the Old Testament Chronicles. As the Chronicler had rewritten the history of Israel and Judah from the basis of the Priests' Code, so our author re-edited from the Pharisaic standpoint of his time the history of events from the creation to the publication, or, according to the author's view, the republication of the law on Sinai. In the course of re-editing he incorporated a large body of traditional lore, which the midrashic process had put at his disposal, and also not a few fresh legal enactments that the exigencies of the past had called forth. His work constitutes an enlarged Targum on Genesis and Exodus, in which difficulties in the biblical narrative are solved, gaps supplied, dogmatically offensive elements removed, and the genuine spirit of later Judaism infused into the primitive history of the world. His object was to defend Judaism against the attacks of the hellenistic spirit that had been in the ascendant one generation earlier and was still powerful, and to prove that the law was of everlasting validity. From our author's contentions and his embittered attacks on the paganisers and apostates, we may infer that Hellenism had urged that the levitical ordinances of the law were only of transitory significance, that they had not been observed by the founders of the nation, and that the time had now come for them to be swept away, and for Israel to take its place in the brotherhood of the nations. Our author regarded all such views as fatal to the very existence of Jewish religion and nationality. But it is not as such that he assailed them, but on the ground of their falsehood. The law, he teaches, is of everlasting validity. Though revealed in time it was superior to time. Before it had been made known in gundry portions to the fathers it had been kept in heaven by the angels, and to its observance henceforward there was no limit in time or in eternity.Writing in the palmiest days of the Maccabean dominion,in the high-priesthood of John Hyrcanus, looked for the immediate advent of the Messianic kingdom. This kingdom was to be ruled over by a Messiah sprung, not from Levi -that is, from the Maccabean family, as some of his contemporaries expected- but from Judah. This kingdom would be gradually realized on earth, and the transformation of physical nature would go hand in hand with the ethical transformation of man till there was a new heaven and a new earth. Thus, finally, all sin and pain would disappear and men would live to the age of 1,000 years in happiness and peace, and after death enjoy a blessed immortality in the spirit world.More Here~~~From: ⁠ https://sacred-texts.com/bib/jub/index.htm⁠The Book of Jubilees, probably written in the 2nd century B.C.E., is an account of the Biblical history of the world from creation to Moses. It is divided into periods ('Jubilees') of 49 years. For the most part the narrative follows the familiar account in Genesis, but with some additional details such as the names of Adam and Eve's daughters, and an active role for a demonic entity called 'Mastema'. The anonymous author had a preoccupation with calendar reform, and uses Jubilees as a platform for proposing a solar calendar of 364 days and 12 months; this would have been a radical departure from ⁠the Jewish Calendar⁠, which is lunar-based. There are also a couple of messianic, apocalyptic passages, although quite a bit less than the Book of Enoch.The only complete version of Jubilees is in Ethiopian, although large fragments in Greek, Latin and Syriac are also known. It is believed that it was originally written in Hebrew. If at times one gets the impression that you are reading a first draft of Genesis, you are in good company. R.H. Charles, the translator, a distinguished academic Biblical scholar, concluded that Jubilees was a version of the Pentateuch, written in Hebrew, parts of which later became incorporated into the earliest Greek version of the Jewish Bible, the Septuagint.~~~More info: ⁠The Book of Jubilees - Bible Hub⁠~~~~~~~Use your own God-given discernment.But it seems to parallel with the 66.Just more of The Good News.All Glory to The Most High.God bless.~~~This and all works are protected by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License