These are not so much jubilees in the ordinary sense as special grants of plenary indulgences for particular purposes (Indulgentiae plenariae in forma jubilaei).
Charles's commentary, The Book of Jubilees or the Little Genesis (1902), which deals exhaustively with all the questions treated in this article.
The Book of Jubilees is the most advanced pre-Christian representative of the Midrashic tendency, which had already been at work in the Old Testament Chronicles.
Charles from four (The Ethiopic Version of the Hebrew Book of Jubilees .
For it never came to pass since the great rain, nor shall the like occur in thirteen jubilees hereafter, that two parties contradictorily contending in judgment be equally satisfied and well pleased with the definitive sentence.
The opinion of Bertholet and Schuerer concerning the semi-proselyte or Ger Toshab is contradicted by both the Book of Jubilees and the Talmudic sources, as will be shown below.
Jubilees XXXIV, 18-19 connects the Day of Atonement with the repentance of Joseph's brethren.
The concourse was still greater on the jubilees of the Translation, when indulgences were showered freely on all who visited the shrine, and the festival lasted for a whole fortnight.
And on the jubilees or fiftieth anniversaries of the Translation, the concourse of people assembled at Canterbury was enormous.
The humiliation of this delayer of Jubilees must be complete.
Don't you know that Jubilees are useful to a man only because other people give him presents in honor of the event?
The Ottawas too, in retaliation, would go to the Iroquois country to scalp some of the Iroquois; then have their jubilees over these scalps by feasting and dancing around them.
I myself was brought up in a pure Indian style, and lived in a wigwam, and have partaken of every kind of the wild jubilees of my people, and was once considered one of the best "Pipe" dancers of the tribe.
It was customary among them, every spring of the year, to gather all the cast off garments that had been worn during the winter and rear them up on a long pole while they were having festivals and jubilees to the Great Spirit.
The Typical Jubilees mark the Date of their Antitype.
The Jewish Jubilees were typical of the "Times of Restitution of all Things.
Then rose & swelled out above those common earthly sounds one of those rich chords, the secret of whose make only the jubilees possess, & a spell fell upon that house.
In the former passage of Jubilees the subject-matter leads to this identification, as well as the fact that Noah is represented as speaking in the first person, although throughout Jubilees it is the angel that speaks.
The influence of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is still more apparent in the Pauline Epistles and the Gospels, and the same holds true of Jubilees and the Assumption of Moses, though in a very slight degree.
The musical critics of the German press praise the Jubilees with great enthusiasm--acquired technique etc, included.
I think that in the Jubileesand their songs America has produced the perfectest flower of the ages; and I wish it were a foreign product, so that she would worship it and lavish money on it and go properly crazy over it.
Then rose and swelled out above those common earthly sounds one of those rich chords the secret of whose make only the Jubilees possess, and a spell fell upon that house.
The pamphlet now selling in the streets for a penny, entitled "Jubilees of the Past," was his.
The Book of Jubilees (not earlier than the 2nd century B.
It is obvious that from Jubilees alone it would have been impossible to conceive the form which the traditions had taken a few centuries previously--viz.
The treatment of the covenant by the author of Jubilees (xxiv.
The Book of Jubilees also enables the student to test the arguments based upon any study restricted to Genesis alone.
Book of Jubilees (see above), and also Arabian usage (W.
Footnote 88: The sabbatic years and jubilees of the Mosaic law, (Car.
St. Pius V set the example of this, on his accession in 1566, which has since been followed by his successors, together with special jubilees decreed at decreasing intervals.
On the relation of the Jubilees to the sect, see further below, p.
The point of this appears when it is compared with Jubilees 1 14: "They will forget my law and all my commandments and all my judgments, and will go astray as to new moons and sabbaths and festivals and jubilees and ordinances" (cf.
On the spirit of Belial (ruling over Israel) see Jubilees 1 20.
Schechter conjectures that the author wrote Sar ha-Panim, the Prince of the Presence, but the passages from Jubilees which he quotes in support of this opinion are hardly convincing.
Jubilees 6 37, the observation of the moon disturbs the calendar.
Jubilees 5 27), while for the Karaites thirty days was only the extreme length of a lunar month.
The relation to the Book of Jubilees is, however, such as to show that there was some affinity between our sect and the circles in which that work originated.
Later, there were Peace Jubilees held in a number of cities of the United States.
But in spite of Peace Jubilees and fine parades of returning troops, our country was still at war.
The book of Jubilees was written in Palestine about the time of our Lord's birth; the Psalter of Solomon dates from the same period.
The book of Jubileesor of Enoch is the strongest argument for the inspiration of the New Testament.
The reader will find another account of the book of Jubilees in the Dict.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jubilees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
