The jubilee from Leviticus to Qumran : a history of interpretation / / by John Sietze Bergsma.

• Superior document: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, v. 115
• Author: Bergsma, John Sietze.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; v. 115.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Notre Dame, 2004.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Chapter 1 The Jubilee and its History of Interpretation /; Chapter 2 Antecedents of the Jubilee Legislation /; Chapter 3 The Life-Setting (Sitz-im-Leben) of the Jubilee /; Chapter 4 The Jubilee as Text: Setting, Structure, Exegesis of Leviticus 25 /; Chapter 5 The Jubilee in Other Pentateuchal Texts /; Chapter 6 Pertinent Texts in Kings and Jeremiah /; Chapter 7 The Jubilee in the Latter Prophets /; Chapter 8 The Jubilee in the Writings /; Chapter 9 The Jubilee in Second Temple Literature /; Chapter 10 The Jubilee at Qumran /; Chapter 11 Conclusions /; Bibliography /; Scripture Citations Index /; Dead Sea Scrolls Citations Index /; Pseudephigrapha Citations Index /; Modern Author Index /; Supplements to Vetus Testamentum /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-325) and indexes.
• ISBN: 1281400262; 9786611400262; 9047410564
• ISSN: 0083-5889
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by John Sietze Bergsma.

The observation of the Jubilee Year 2000 by many Christian groups worldwide generated renewed interest in the theological, historical, and socio-economic aspects of the biblical jubilee. This book begins with an analysis of the historical origins of the jubilee institution in ancient Israel, and then traces the reinterpretation of the jubilee and the text of Leviticus 25 through the Old Testament, the Second Temple literature, and the Qumran documents. It demonstrates that, with the passage of time, the socio-economic implementation of the jubilee is increasingly de-emphasized in favor of an eschatological interpretation, in which the jubilee itself functions as a type of the final age, and cycles of jubilee years are employed to calculate when this age will arrive.