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Second-Temple Sabbatical Years: Beginning Again (in Fits and Starts)

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Darrell Pursiful

The attested sabbatical years in the Second-Temple Period don’t line up with scholars’ best guesses of when sabbatical and Jubilee years fell in the pre-exilic period. The second-century Seder Olam Rabbah explains why this is so: since the Jews were … Continue reading →

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