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Intro to Comparative Religion

Judaism: The God of Abraham

The main difference between the Book of Jubilees and Genesis, is that Jubilees
goes into far greater detail. For example: where Genesis only has lists of names of the patriarchs who lived before the great flood, and how old they lived, the Jubilees provides more about the names of their wives, anything significant they may have done, etc.
Also know as the Little Genesis: a number of early Christian writers and, later, some Byzantine chronographers referred to Jubilees under this title. It highlights the obvious relationship of the book to Genesis, but why the adjective little was added is not clear.
It has been suggested that it points to Jubilees' detailed treatment of various topics which are simply mentioned or even ignored in Genesis, but, as there are instances in which Genesis offers greater detail, the hypothesis is unconvincing. It is possible that "little" was used pejoratively, though Jubilees enjoyed......

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