The Dragon in the Ethiopic Book of Jubilees Tradition
- Date of account
- Late antique Ethiopian preservation of an earlier Jewish work
- Location
- Ethiopian Ge’ez manuscript tradition
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Book of Jubilees survives substantially in Ge’ez and preserves expanded biblical chronology, angelology, and encounters with dangerous or supernatural beings. Its references to dragons, serpents, and wilderness creatures belong to a Jewish apocalyptic and rewritten-biblical tradition, not to Ethiopian field observation. This makes it useful for tracing how creature motifs entered African manuscript culture and were later interpreted by different readers. The composition predates the medieval period, while the surviving Ge’ez witnesses are later; that distinction must remain explicit in any comparison.
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