The Book of Jubilees places Noah’s post-Flood crisis inside a larger revelation said to have been given to Moses at Sinai. In the book’s narrative, hostile spirits continue to harm Noah’s descendants after the Flood, Mastema petitions to retain a portion of them, and Noah receives written remedies against their effects.

Jubilees also retells Genesis through the opening portion of Exodus, arranging sacred history into seven-year weeks and forty-nine-year jubilees. It expands traditions about Watchers, giants, heavenly tablets, patriarchal law, and a 364-day calendar.

Its survival raises a second mystery. Hebrew fragments from Qumran show that Jubilees circulated in Second Temple Judaism, while complete or substantially complete witnesses survived in Geʽez through Ethiopian Christian manuscript traditions. Was its disappearance from most later biblical collections intentional exclusion, or the outcome of changing communities, languages, canons, and copying networks?

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YES OR NO: Was Jubilees intentionally excluded from most biblical traditions???????