Jim and Jubilees

 Jim has finished  an  eight year project --a commentary on the book of Jubilees.  Last night we celebrated with beer and "handhelds" at the Heavenly Goat Brewery.

Jubilees has been a part of Jim's life for a long time.  His doctoral dissertation on Jubilees was published in 1977.  His mentor and PhD adviser Frank Cross asked  him to do this project in 1992  but he had other things he had to finish first.  He really started it in 2010 and ended the actual writing in November 2016.  Fortress Press couldn't budget for its size just then so the editing was delayed until February 2018.

The last few months have been ones of sometimes daily emails between Jim and his editors and a few graduate assistants. But now the 1350 pages are done!  The hope is to have the two volumes available for the Society of Biblical Literature convention in November.  The convention is in Denver and that is where the editors live so we are looking forward for a celebration dinner then.

It's time to recycle all those papers!  Papers for the next project are already piling up however--a biography of Robert Henry Charles--who published on Jubilees in the years at the turn of the 20th century.