Intriguing. Maybe it was like fan fiction and folk were like thats interesting so referenced it or something. Like how movies sometimes reference other movies.
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: Why do you rely on outside authority to tell you the validity of a particular Scripture?
A copy dating to around 200BC was located and carbon dated in the Dead Sea Scrolls, causing current scholarship to have shifted from a previous widely held theory that it was a reactionary Jewish text written in the era of the Maccabean Revolt pushing back against Greek influence to roughly what you're proposing (ancient fan fiction).
Interestingly, Enoch is completely absent from early Rabbinic Judaism's texts despite receiving frequent citations of mixed critical/accepting nature in the Christian tradition from figures like St. Irenaeus of Lyon, St. Justin Martyr, Origen, Tertullian and St. John Cassian. It was lost to the Western tradition entirely sometime in the late classical period and the last Byzantine references to it occurred in the 9th century. It wasn't until the 1700s that awareness outside of Ethiopia/Eritrea resurfaced. !historychads
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Intriguing. Maybe it was like fan fiction and folk were like thats interesting so referenced it or something. Like how movies sometimes reference other movies.
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A copy dating to around 200BC was located and carbon dated in the Dead Sea Scrolls, causing current scholarship to have shifted from a previous widely held theory that it was a reactionary Jewish text written in the era of the Maccabean Revolt pushing back against Greek influence to roughly what you're proposing (ancient fan fiction).
Interestingly, Enoch is completely absent from early Rabbinic Judaism's texts despite receiving frequent citations of mixed critical/accepting nature in the Christian tradition from figures like St. Irenaeus of Lyon, St. Justin Martyr, Origen, Tertullian and St. John Cassian. It was lost to the Western tradition entirely sometime in the late classical period and the last Byzantine references to it occurred in the 9th century. It wasn't until the 1700s that awareness outside of Ethiopia/Eritrea resurfaced. !historychads
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