Subject: Re: Re[8]: Methods in biblical scholarship
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 22:38:05 -0500
At 04:16 AM 12/29/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>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)?
Maybe you have it backwards. Genesis was clearly accepted as authoritative,
Enoch cannot be proved.
>What about Jubilees' usage of the same Enoch material in a clearer manner?
>Or Jubilees' knowledge of Enoch's Astronomical book?
What makes you think that it goes Enoch -> Jubilees and not Jubilees ->
Enoch or possibly X ->J/X->E? Youi have no data to support any view. A
possible support of J -> E is that Jubilees is 'authoritative' in the DSS
community.