Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niels Peter Lemche 
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 December, 1999 22:06
> To:   'peter_kirk AT sil.org'
> Subject:      RE: Re[8]: Methods in biblical scholarship
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: peter_kirk AT sil.org [SMTP:peter_kirk AT sil.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 December, 1999 23:42
> To:   Biblical Hebrew
> Cc:   b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
> Subject:      Re[8]: Methods in biblical scholarship
> 
> I don't think I ever claimed a uniform process of canonisation. I was 
> looking for evidence that ANY of the many Jewish groups, at ANY time, 
> considered Enoch as Holy Scripture, on the level of the Torah or the 
> prophets. I have seen no such evidence. There have been some 
> suggestions, which I cannot refute, that some fringe Jewish groups may 
> have considered Enoch as such. But this was clearly not the main 
> stream.
> 
> Peter Kirk
> 
> [Niels Peter Lemche]  How do you know that they were fringe Jews, except
> from the standpoint of later rabbinic Judaism?
> 
> NPL
>