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In the ancient Near East, the heavenly tablets record the individual's deeds and misdeeds, and his or her corresponding fate. The usage continues in Jubilees . This chapter surveys rabbinic comments in which, like Ezra and Nehemiah's torah text, and Jubilees' heavenly tablets, the rabbis' written torah has the character of a register. The rabbinic texts surveyed in the chapter attests to the disappearance, among the rabbis, of an exegetical function for the heavenly tablets. The heavenly tablets in rabbinic literature belong to the economy of divine justice; they have little or no place in the house of study. The rabbis' written torah is explicated by no other writing than the written torah itself. Hence exegetical motifs and functions associated in Jubilees with the heavenly tablets migrate in rabbinic literature to the written torah. Keywords:heavenly tablets; Jubilees ; rabbis' written Torah
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