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Despite a wide-spread interest in the genre,1 relatively little attention has been paid to the many last testaments in the Book of Jubilees.2 What treatment does exist tends to emphasize the theological at the expense of the exegetical, assuming that the particular content of the testaments is determined solely by concerns essential to the author of Jubilees rather than by interpretation of Scripture.3 following is a representative view: The author places in the mouth of the patriarchs the commands and admonitions that he himself wishes to make to his readers. most striking example of this occurs in Abraham's three testaments... .4 Scholars have thus conceived of the last testament in Jubilees as summation speeches5 that the author freely
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