Ceriani’s Latin transcription is available in the project’s TEI encoding. Modern page 62 and reconstructed original page 83 are different identifiers for the selected material.
Enoch & Jubilees · Latin
Latin Jubilees: Abram, famine and return
The project’s transcription and translation files map Jubilees 13:10–15 to original page 83, now palimpsest page 62, in the Latin witness.
Page-to-passage concordance checked
- Physical witness
- Biblioteca Ambrosiana C 73 inf. · Latin Moses undertext
- Selected unit
- Jubilees 13:10–15 · reconstructed original page 5c083 · modern palimpsest page 62
- Edition or research reference
- Ceriani 1861 transcription; James C. VanderKam, The Book of Jubilees, CSCO 511 (1989), Latin-recension translation, as encoded by the Jubilees Palimpsest Project.
- Review boundary
- The project’s XML page markers and corresponding transcription and translation units were inspected; manuscript photographs and the print edition were not independently collated.
Follow the reading
VanderKam’s 1989 Latin-recension English translation is linked by the project. Its copyright notice permits fair use only; this study paraphrases and links rather than reproducing the complete passage.
The inspected project files connect Jubilees 13:10–15 to original page 83 / modern palimpsest page 62.
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The Latin witness places Abram’s journey to Egypt within an account of famine, Sarah’s forced removal and the family’s return. The narrative includes chronological claims; converting them into a modern historical date requires a separately stated method.
The translation file starts verse 13:10 on original page 83 / modern page 62; verse 13:16 begins on the next reconstructed page. The selected unit therefore has a checkable page address. Reconstructed missing pages in the project’s diagram must not be counted as surviving manuscript material.
What remains to check
Check the photograph letter by letter and compare the print edition. This Latin witness does not settle the separate Aramaic/Hebrew Qumran fragment mappings, including 4Q216.
Bring the learning forward
Trace movement, vulnerability and return without assigning blame to a person who is harmed. A Babylon exercise can ask what support would make a difficult transition safer, while leaving the story’s dates within their textual setting.
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Sources you can retrace
These source links identify the consulted catalogue, transcription, edition or scholarly quotation. Source images and complete modern translations remain at their original hosts.
- Jubilees Palimpsest Project · reconstruction ↗
Jubilees Palimpsest Project, St. Mary’s University; fifth-century reconstruction attribution, not a new dating assessment.
Physical reconstruction and page identifiers - VanderKam translation · project XML ↗
James C. VanderKam, 1989, CSCO 511; project encoding. File notice: Copyright CSCO Peeters, fair use only.
Consulted translation and page markers - Ceriani transcription · project XML ↗
Ceriani 1861 transcription, encoded by the project.
Consulted Latin transcription encoding - Original page 83 · project viewer ↗
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Linked facsimile route; image collation pending
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Babylon Learning Centre. “Latin Jubilees: Abram, famine and return.” Passage Research Studio, revision 1, 5 November 2026. https://learn.babylonencyclopedia.com/research/passages/jubilees-latin-abram-egypt/
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