The Jubilee from Leviticus to Qumran (2007 Bergsma), book

The Jubilee from Leviticus to Qumran: a history of interpretation (2007) is a book by John S. Bergsma.

Editions and translations

Published in Boston: Brill, 2007 and in Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Table of contents

• 1. The Jubilee and its History of Interpretation
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Overview of Scholarship
  • 3. Method
  • 4. Structure
• 2. Antecedents of the Jubilee Legistlation
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Ancient Near Eastern Antecedents of the Jubilee
  • 3. Biblical Antecedents: The Covenant Code
  • 4. Summary
• 3. The Life-Setting (Sitz-im-Leben) of the Jubilee
  • 1. Overview of Scholarship
  • 2. The Pre-Exilic, Tribal Sitz-im-Leben of the Jubilee
  • 3. A Ploy by Post-Exilic Priests?
  • 4. Summary: An Early Tribal Sitz-im-Leben
• 4. The Jubilee as Text: Setting, Structure, Exegesis of Leviticus 25
  • 1. Literary Setting (Sitz-im-Leben)
  • 2. Structure
  • 3. Exegesis
  • 4. Summary
• 5. The Jubilee in Other Pentateuchal Texts
  • 1. Leviticus 27
  • 2. Numbers 27 and 36
  • 3. Deuteronomy 15
  • 4. Conclusions
• 6. Pertinent Texts in Kings and Jeremiah
  • 1. 1 Kings 6-9: The Temple Dedication in the 500th Year after the Exodus?
  • 2. 1 Kings 21:1-18: Naboth's Vineyard
  • 3. 2 Kings 19:29: Isaih Proclaims a Two-Year Fallow
  • 4. Jer 32:1-15: The Redemption of Hanamel's Field
  • 5. Jer 34:8-22: The Release of Slaves under Zedekiah
  • 6. Jeremiah's Seventy Years
  • 7. Summary
• 7. The Jubilee in the Latter Prophets
  • 1. The Jubilee in Ezekiel
  • 2. The Jubilee in the Book of Isaih
  • 3. Conclusion
• 8. The Jubilee in the Writings
  • 1. The Jubilee in Ezra-Nehemiah
  • 2. The Jubilee in Chronicles
  • 3. The Jubilee in Daniel (Dan 9)
  • 4. Conclusion
• 9. The Jubilee in Second Temple Literature
  • 1. The Jubilee in Jubilees
  • 2. The Jubilee in 1 Enoch
  • 3. The Testament of Levi
  • 4. Conclusion
• 10. The Jubilee at Qumran
  • 1. Historiographic Uses of the Jubilee at Qumran
  • 2. Cultic-calendrical Uses of the Jubilee at Qumran
  • 3. The Jubilee in Qumran Eschatology
  • 4. Overview of Jubilary Chronologies in Second Temple Literature
  • 5. Conclusion
• 11. Conclusions
  • 1. The Significance of the Original Jubilee Legislation
  • 2. Legal Interpretations or References to the Jubilee
  • 3. Ethical Interpretations of the Jubilee
  • 4. Eschatological and Messianic Interpretations of the Jubilee
  • 5. Chronological Uses of the Jubilee
  • 6. Cultic-calendrical Uses of the Jubilee
  • 7. General Observations

External links

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