Where did Noah place the blood? A textual note on Jubilees 7:4

Journal of Biblical Literature

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 745-749

  Gilders, William K ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61249711837     PISSN: 00219231     EISSN: 19343876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30041068     Document Type: Note

References (47)

1. See, e.g., Leviticus 4 (esp. vv. 5-7, 16-18, 25, 30, 34)
2. On the offering and its blood manipulations in the Hebrew Bible, see William K. Gilders, Blood Ritual in the Hebrew Bible: Meaning and Power (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), 31-32, 109-41, 146-50, 153-55
3. See, e.g., Philo, Spec. 1.231, 233
4. Josephus, Ant. 3.231, 242-43
5. (Florentino García Martínez, Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar, and Adam S. van der Woude, eds., Manuscripts from Qumran Cave 11 (11Q2-18, 11Q20-30) [DJD 23; Oxford: Clarendon, 1997], 367-69
6. Elisha Qimron, The Temple Scroll: A Critical Edition with Extensive Reconstructions [JDS; Beer Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 1996], 25)
7. (Qimron, Temple Scroll, 26, 37)
8. It is evident that the biblical source for this set of sacrifices is the list of offerings in Num 29:2, 5 for the festival of the first day of the seventh month. On this connection, see James C. VanderKam, The Book of Jubilees (CSCO 511; SA 88; Leuven: Peeters, 1989), 43
9. Yigael Yadin, The Temple Scroll (3 vols.; Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1983), 1:89-91; 2:58
10. Jacques T. A. G. M. van Ruiten, Primaeval History Interpreted: The Rewriting of Genesis 1-11 in the Book of Jubilees (JSJSup 66; Leiden: Brill, 2000), 279-82
11. Chanoch Albeck, "Das Buch der Jubiläen und die Halacha," in Siebenundvierzigster Bericht der Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin (Berlin, 1930), 21
12. Klaus Berger, Das Buch der Jubiläen (JSHRZ 2.3; Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, 1981), 362 n. 3c
13. Lawrence H. Schiffman, "The Sacrificial System of the Temple Scroll and the Book of Jubilees," in SBL 1985 Seminar Papers (SBLSP 24; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1985), 222
14. van Ruiten, Primaeval History Interpreted, 279
15. As Albeck noted ("Das Buch der Jubiläen und die Halacha," 21)
16. Translations universally construe the text this way. Note the following English renderings of diba šegā zamešwa': R. H. Charles, The Book of Jubilees or the Little Genesis (London: A. & C. Black, 1902), 59 ("on the flesh that was on the altar")
17. Orval S. Wintermute, in OTP 2:69 ("on the flesh which was on the altar")
18. VanderKam, Book of Jubilees, 44 ("the meat [that was on] the altar")
19. See also Moshe Goldman, in (ed. Avraham Kahana; Jerusalem: Makor, 1978), 1:237
20. German translations are the most literal: Enno Littman, in Die Apokryphen und Pseudepigraphen des Alten Testaments (ed. Emil Kautzsch; 1900; repr., Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1962), 2:52 ("auf das Fleisch des Altars")
21. Berger, Das Buch der Jubiläen, 362 ("auf das Fleisch des Altares")
22. Albeck, "Das Buch der Jubiläen und die Halacha," 21, 50-51 n. 139
23. See William K. Gilders, "Representation and Interpretation: Blood Manipulation in Ancient Israel and Early Judaism" (Ph.D. diss., Brown University, 2001), 337-80
24. Schiffman, "Sacrificial System," 222
25. see "Sacrificial System," 222-23, 232-33
26. For this critique of Shiffman's interpretation, see James C. Vanderkam, "The Temple Scroll and the Book of Jubilees," in Temple Scroll Studies: Papers Presented at the International Symposium on the Temple Scroll, Manchester, December 1987 (ed. G. J. Brooke; JSPSup 7; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 19S9), 229
27. van Ruiten, Primaeval History Interpreted, 279 n. 49
28. Van Ruiten, Primaeval History Interpreted, 279
29. See Lev 4:8-12, 19-21, 26, 31, 35; 6:19-23 (Eng. 6:26-30); 8:16-17; 9:10-11
30. Gilders, Blood Ritual, 127
31. See, e.g., Exod 12:8; 21:28; 29:34
32. Lev 6:20; 7:15, 17, 18, 19, 21; 8:32; 11:8, 11
33. See John W. Wevers, Notes on the Greek Text of Exodus (SBLSCS 30; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990), 471 (on Exod 29:14)
34. Henry St. J. Thackeray, A Grammar of the Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (1909; repr., Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1987), 149
35. See the critical apparatus for Exod 12:8 and 29:14 in John W. Wevers and Udo Quast, eds., Septuaginta Vetus Testamentum Graecum: Exodus (Göttingen Septuagint 2.1; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1991)
36. and for Lev 8:17 in idem, Septuaginta Vetus Testamentum Graecum: Leviticus (Göttingen Septuagint 2.2; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1986)
37. see also Wevers, Greek Text of Exodus, 471 (on Exod 29:14)
38. See Wevers, Leviticus (Göttingen Septuagint 2.2), ad loc. My thanks to Albert Pietersma for bringing this example to my attention
39. Exodus 29:12
40. Lev 4:7, 18, 25, 30, 34; 8:15; 9:9; 16:18
41. The Ethiopic Pentateuch renders most such occurrences with a simple construct chain ('aqrenta mešwā') (e.g., Exod 29:12
42. Lev 4:7, 18, 25, 34; 8:15; 9:9)
43. However, in Lev 4:30 we find 'aqrenta zamešwā'
44. (cf. Lev 16:18, where 'aqrentihu lamešwā' appears)
45. See J. Oscar Boyd, The Octateuch in Ethiopic: According to the Text of the Paris Codex with Variants of Five Other Manuscripts (Bibliotheca Abessinica 4; Leiden: Brill, 1911), vol. 2, ad loc
46. In the Hebrew Bible, see Exod 29:12
47. Lev 4:25, 30, 34; 8:15; 9:9; 16:18