Some further fragments of two old Latin translations have been set forth by Ceriani and Rönsch, and these with the Ethiopic text enable us to give a satisfactory account of this curious and long-lost work. With the aid of another MS., Dillmann published the Ethiopian text in 1859. and iii., with an appendix containing discussions on the main points of interest. It was translated by Dillmann in Ewald's Jahrbücher, ii. The work was an Ethiopian version of the original, complete, indeed, in one sense, but full of errors, and not a trustworthy representation of the original. Krapff, an African missionary, found the book in Abyssinia, had it transcribed, and sent the manuscript to the University Library in Tübingen. The age, however, which witnessed the rediscovery of 'The Assumption of Moses' has been gratified by the reappearance of the Book of Jubilees. For four hundred years nothing but a few scattered fragments was known to exist. Allusions to information contained therein, without actual naming of the origin of the statements, are very numerous, particularly in the Byzantine chroniclers, so that the work was well and widely known up to the middle of the fourteenth century but from that time the original has been entirely lost.

Pseudepigrapha - William John Deane The Book of Jubilees, or the Little Genesis, is mentioned by name continually in the writings of the early Fathers, and by a succession of authors reaching to Theodorus Metochita (A.D.1332).

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