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  • From: Ian Hutchesson <mc2499 AT mclink.it>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Re[8]: Methods in biblical scholarship
  • Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 04:16:30 +0100



Doesn't Gen5:21-24 and 6:1-4 rely on the (unstated) Enoch tradition (given
the Gen text's *cryptic* form which doesn't state enough to make itself
comprehensible)?

What about Jubilees' usage of the same Enoch material in a clearer manner?
Or Jubilees' knowledge of Enoch's Astronomical book?

Ian

>At 17.41 28/12/99 -0500, peter_kirk AT sil.org wrote:
>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.





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