Lesser Genesis

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Lesser Genesis is an alternate title for the ancient Jewish religious work known as the Book of Jubilees, which retells and expands upon the narratives of Genesis and part of Exodus.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Lesser Genesis canonical 1
Little Genesis 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Jewish religious text ⓘ
pseudepigraphal work ⓘ
rewritten Bible ⓘ
associatedWith Second Temple Judaism ⓘ
basedOn Book of Genesis ⓘ
early chapters of Exodus ⓘ
canonicalStatus canonical in Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ⓘ
non-canonical in Rabbinic Judaism ⓘ
non-canonical in most Christian traditions ⓘ
category Old Testament pseudepigrapha ⓘ
centralTheme angelic mediation of revelation ⓘ
covenant and law ⓘ
division of history into jubilees (49-year periods) ⓘ
claimsAuthorshipBy Moses ⓘ
contains chronological system based on jubilees and weeks of years ⓘ
interpretations of biblical laws ⓘ
legal material related to festivals and calendar ⓘ
dateOfComposition 2nd century BCE (approximate) ⓘ
emphasizes solar calendar of 364 days ⓘ
expands early Exodus traditions ⓘ
patriarchal narratives of Genesis ⓘ
primeval history (Creation, Flood, Tower of Babel) ⓘ
stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph ⓘ
focusesOn heavenly tablets as source of law and history ⓘ
strict observance of the law ⓘ
foundIn Dead Sea Scrolls (Hebrew fragments) ⓘ
linked to: Dead Sea Scrolls
genre biblical paraphrase ⓘ
midrashic narrative ⓘ
hasAlternateTitle Jubilees ⓘ
Leptogenesis ⓘ
Little Genesis ⓘ
linked to: Lesser Genesis
hasTitle Book of Jubilees ⓘ
linked to: Jubilees
influenced Qumran community (Dead Sea Scrolls milieu) ⓘ
linked to: Essenes
language Geʿez (Ethiopic) ⓘ
linked to: Ge'ez

Greek (fragmentary) ⓘ
Hebrew (originally) ⓘ
Latin (fragmentary) ⓘ
Syriac (fragmentary) ⓘ
narrativeScope from Creation to the giving of the Law at Sinai ⓘ
placeOfOrigin Land of Israel ⓘ
linked to: Eretz HaKodesh
preservedCompletelyIn Geʿez (Ethiopic) manuscripts ⓘ
purportsToBe revelation given to Moses on Mount Sinai ⓘ
relatedWork 1 Enoch ⓘ
Genesis Apocryphon ⓘ
religiousTradition Judaism ⓘ
subject covenant between God and Israel ⓘ
creation and early human history ⓘ
patriarchs of Israel ⓘ

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jubilees → hasTitle → Lesser Genesis ⓘ
Lesser Genesis → hasAlternateTitle → Little Genesis ⓘ
linked to: Lesser Genesis