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  • From: peter_kirk AT sil.org
  • To: <npl AT teol.ku.dk>
  • Cc: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re[6]: Methods in biblical scholarship
  • Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:36:36 -0500


As Paul wrote, a Jew to the Jews and a Gentile to the Gentiles. When
writing or speaking to Gentile Greeks, he quoted Greek poets. When his
colleague Jude wrote to Jews (?), he quoted a popular Jewish work.
That doesn't imply that either treated these works as Holy Scripture.
Indeed, it seems that our Jewish friends have confirmed my
understanding that the book of Enoch was never considered by Jews, at
least in the mainstream, as on the same level as the Torah, the books
of the Prophets etc. Yes, they read it and commented on it, as with
Sirach, Jubilees etc, but it was never included in the same category.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re[5]: Methods in biblical scholarship
Author: <npl AT teol.ku.dk> at Internet
Date: 27/12/1999 21:05


Whether you like it or not, but the cases are rather different. In Jude
there is a clear evidence to Henoch, in Acts, the reference is included in
the speech to the Athinians and is to anonymous poets belonging to the Greek
tradition, and in Titus it is the old adage by a Cretan that all Cretans are
liers.

NPL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: peter_kirk AT sil.org [SMTP:peter_kirk AT sil.org]
> Sent: Monday, 27 December, 1999 18:35
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: Re[4]: Methods in biblical scholarship
>
> Jude (verse 14-15) quotes from Enoch, and in Acts 17:28 and Titus 1:12
> Paul quotes from Greek authors. Do we conclude from the latter that
> the Greek writings in question were counted as Holy Scripture by the
> Jews of the time?
>
> So, in the late first century or early second century CE Jewish canon,
> was Enoch included?
>
> Peter Kirk
>
>





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