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The Book of Jubilees, for those unfamiliar, is an ancient Jewish work that retells the stories of Genesis and Exodus, but with a whole lot of extra detail and a very particular poi...
The Book of Jubilees, an ancient Jewish text that expands on the biblical narrative, gives us a beautiful glimpse into those moments. It tells us that Joseph and his brothers gathe...
The Torah is full of these moments, these transitions, these reminders of our own mortality. And the Book of Jubilees, that fascinating text that expands upon Genesis, Exodus, and ...
This wasn't just a fleeting moment of goodwill; the Book of Jubilees specifies that this harmony lasted for "ten weeks of years" – seventy years in total – all the days of Joseph's...
It's easy to think of him as simply a messenger, a conduit for God's will. But the Book of Jubilees, a fascinating text from around the 2nd century BCE, paints a picture of Moses t...
And in this chapter, we see the enemy strategizing, trying to figure out how to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds. So, the scene is set. Holofernes, the fearsome general of th...
Our story kicks off during a turbulent time. Shalmaneser, King of Assyria, has just kicked the bucket, and his son, Sennacherib, takes the throne. Now, this wasn't just a changing ...
That’s precisely where Tobiyyah finds himself in the Book of Tobit. He needs to journey to Media – a long and perilous trip – to retrieve money owed to his father. But who will gui...
Remember Tobiyyah (sometimes called Tobias), our hero? He's on this epic journey to retrieve some money for his blind father, Tobit. And he's got the angel Raphael disguised as a h...
