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- Title: Where Did Noah Place the Blood? A Textual Note on Jubilees 7:4.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 177 KB
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According to biblical prescriptions and descriptions, the blood of the [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] ("sin" or "purification") offering is applied to various furnishings of sacred space. Most commonly, the blood of this sacrificial offering is daubed onto the horns of the altar of burnt offering. (1) Other ancient Jewish texts also refer to this ritual treatment of [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] sacrificial blood. (2) Elaborating on Gen 9:20-21a, the book of Jubilees narrates that when Noah drank wine for the first time he celebrated a festival with sacrificial offerings: "a burnt offering to the Lord, one bull calf, one ram, seven sheep each a year old, and one goat kid so as to make expiation with it for himself and for his sons" (7:3b). (3) Although not explicitly identified as such, the goat kid must be a [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] offering, as several interpreters have noted. (4) Noah offered the kid first (7:4a), "and he placed some of its blood upon the flesh of the altar" (wa'anbara 'emenna damu diba Sega zameswac) (7:4b). In light of the biblical sources on the [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], one would expect Noah to apply the blood to his altar, specifically to the horns. (5) However, according to the Ethiopic text of Jub. 7:4--our only extant witness for this part of Jubilees--Noah daubed blood from the [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] goat onto meat that was on the altar. (6)