To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Methods in biblical scholarship (Moshe)
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 05:53:42 +0100
At 22.37 28/12/99 -0500, Moshe Shulman wrote:
>Outside of the Biblical books, and Jubilees there is no valid argument from
>the DSS that other works were considered 'authoritative.'
Beside Jubilees 21:10 which acknowledges the authoritative nature of the
ten current form of Enoch, CD 2:18 draws on the Enochic Watchers
literature. But the obscurity of the Genesis citations (5:21-24, 6:1-4)
tells you that the Enoch literature was around and used.