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1 Enoch and Jubilees Textual History

The textual history and comparison of 1 Enoch and Jubilees between the Geʽez tradition and the Qumran finds, including the transmission pathways and the differences in content, order, and length.

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Jan 18, 2026
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What manuscript evidence preserves 1 Enoch and Jubilees in Geʽez, and how do those texts differ from Hebrew/Aramaic fragments at Qumran?

The full corpora of 1 Enoch and Jubilees survive in medieval Ethiopic (Geʽez) manuscripts, whereas the Dead Sea Scrolls preserved earlier fragments in Aramaic (1 Enoch) and Hebrew (Jubilees), permitti...