This is a new (2011) easy-to-read translation and not one of the many century-old public domain translations. The Book of Jubilees contains information additional to Genesis and early Exodus, and is the account from creation to the early times of Moses. The Book of Jubilees claims to be told to Moses by angels when he was on Mount Sinai. One of the Dead Sea Scrolls, The Damascus Document, states that the Book of Jubilees reveals divine secrets "to which Israel has turned a blind eye." The Essenes, a Jewish sect who lived from the 2nd c. BCE to the 1st c. ACE, coveted the Book of Jubilees and kept it in their library. Jubilees are seven "year-weeks," a year-week being a period of seven years, so a jubilee is 49 years.

Translator Dr A. Nyland is an ancient language scholar and historian who served as faculty at the University of New England, Australia. Dr Nyland is also the translator of "The Complete Books of Enoch," "The Source New Testament with Extensive Notes on Greek Word Meaning," the ancient Hittite "Kikkuli Text," and "The Psalms: Translation with Notes" and the author of "A Devil of a Job to Find Satan in the Bible" and many more.