Daniel replied to the topic The Book of Enoch in the forum Exta-biblical Writings 22 years, 8 months ago
T8, very cool that you are interested and want to know the detail of the facts.Let me say that the early church father’s who determined what is “scripture” and what is not determined that The Book of Enoch’s discrepancy was: The new testament states: (Jude 14-15 appears to be a quote from 1 Enoch, which is also known as the Apocalypse of Enoch-1…[Read more]
Daniel replied to the topic The Book of Enoch in the forum Exta-biblical Writings 22 years, 8 months ago
I belive that Enoch was excluded from both the Jewish and Christian canons because is pseudepigrapha — ascribed to a writer who did not write it. The Aramaic language used would indicate an authorship sometime in the 2nd or 3rd century B.C. Virtually all the books considered over time to be apocryphal (by both Catholics and Protestants) can…[Read more]