Benedict Zuckermann

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The length of the Jubilee cycle continues to be of interest to modern scholarship, as does the question of the practicality of the legislation, and whether it was ever put into effect on a nationwide basis. Regarding the length of the cycle, three significant scholarly studies devoted to the Jubilee and Sabbatical years agree that it was 49 years, while disagreeing somewhat on the interpretation of the other issues involved. These major studies were those of Benedict Zuckermann,[34] Robert North,[35] and Jean-François Lefebvre.[36] The reasons given by these authors to support a 49-year cycle are both textual (examining all relevant Biblical texts) and practical.