“One language and one tongue”: Animal speech in Jubilees 3:27–31

A. R. Wells
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Jubilees 3:27–31 explains the command to cover one’s nakedness, and the connections with animal speech help to elucidate the reasons for this law. Jubilees implies a sort of equality/solidarity between humans and animals due to their sin/impurity. Even though God does not directly address the serpent with speech, Jubilees portrays animals as more rational than in Genesis, as they originally talked and conversed with each other and apparently also with humans. This shared rationality and identity between all animals results in all losing their speech. Animals are portrayed in Jubilees with more rationality, culpability, and even solidarity with humans than in Genesis. The one exception is that animals are not allowed to cover their nakedness, and yet they still end up in a more positive light than the nations, who are willfully uncovered and in shame.
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“一种语言和一种语言”:银禧动物演讲3:27-31
《禧年记》3:27-31解释了遮盖裸体的命令,并且与动物语言的联系有助于阐明这条律法的原因。由于人类和动物的罪恶/不洁,禧年意味着一种平等/团结。尽管上帝没有直接用语言对蛇说话,但《禧年记》把动物描绘得比《创世纪》更理性,因为它们最初彼此交谈,显然也与人类交谈。所有动物之间这种共同的理性和身份导致了所有动物都失去了语言。在《禧年记》中,动物被描绘得比《创世纪》更理性、更有罪,甚至与人类团结一致。唯一的例外是动物不被允许遮盖它们的裸体,但它们最终还是比那些故意裸露和羞耻的国家更积极。
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期刊介绍: The last twenty years have witnessed some remarkable achievements in the study of early Jewish literature. Given the ever-increasing number and availability of primary sources for these writings, specialists have been producing text-critical, historical, social scientific, and theological studies which, in turn, have fuelled a growing interest among scholars, students, religious leaders, and the wider public. The only English journal of its kind, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha was founded in 1987 to provide a much-needed forum for scholars to discuss and review most recent developments in this burgeoning field in the academy.
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