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(1
) J.
C.
VANDERKAM, “The Angel of the Presence in the Book of Jubilees”,
Dead Sea Discoveries 7 (2000) 390.
(2
) J.
C.
VANDERKAM, The Book of Jubilees (CSCO 510-511, Scriptores
Aethiopici 87-88; Leuven 1989) II, 40.
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(1
) J.
C.
VANDERKAM, “The Angel of the Presence in the Book of Jubilees”,
Dead Sea Discoveries 7 (2000) 390.
(2
) J.
C.
VANDERKAM, The Book of Jubilees (CSCO 510-511, Scriptores
Aethiopici 87-88; Leuven 1989) II, 40.
(3
) VANDERKAM, “The Angel of the Presence in the Book of Jubilees”, 391.
(4
) VANDERKAM, “The Angel of the Presence in the Book of Jubilees”, 391.
(5
) VANDERKAM, The Book of Jubilees, II, 195.
Moses’ Heavenly Counterpart in the Book of Jubilees
and the Exagoge of Ezekiel the Tragedian
“He told us — all the angels of the presence .
.
.
to keep sabbath with him in heaven and on earth”
(Jub 2,18)
One of the enigmatic characters in the Book of Jubilees is the angel of
the presence who dictates to Moses heavenly revelation.
The book
provides neither the angel’s name nor a clear picture of his celestial
roles and offices.
Complicating the picture is the angel’s arrogation, in
certain passages of the text, of “what in the Bible are words or deeds
of God”(1
).
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