The Subversion of the Apocalypses in the Book of Jubilees

Hanneken (theology St. Mary''s U. Texas) has significantly reworked his 2008 doctoral dissertation The Book of Jubilees Among the Apocalypses at the University of Notre Dame. Jubilees uses the genre of an apocalypse at the level of literary morphology he contends but fills it with different ideas so as to subvert the most basic claims made by the apocalypses. He shows how it describes evil forces but makes them unwilling agents of good foretells sin and punishment but follows it with penance and redemption and focuses more on a renewed understanding of the world than on revelation from heaven. Annotation 2013 Book News Inc. Portland OR (booknews)