| Nick Sevilla wrote on Tue, 08 June 2010 11:16 |
| PookyNMR wrote on Sun, 06 June 2010 17:22 |
| Nick Sevilla wrote on Sat, 05 June 2010 09:14 |
For all of you, in case you forgot, please read this :
Book of Enoch
And remember, that he met the Lord... maybe that is why his writings were abandoned long ago.
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I'm not sure what you're trying to imply here.
But the 'Book of Enoch' was not written by Enoch. It is part of a collection of writings called the (Jewish) Pseudepigraphia. It was written ~ 200 BC. It's also written in the apocalyptic genre which didn't appear too much earlier than roughly 400 BC.
While the book was known and had some respect among early peoples, it was never considered part of the authoritative canon of scriptures for the Jews. And even though it is quoted in the NT book of Jude, it was likewise rejected by the Christians as well as authoritative/canonical, even as a book for the 'apocrypha'.
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Good point...
I know this... does anyone else here know about who really wrote this along with all the other books in the Great Book? Probably not.
It would be interesting to find out why it was not considered important.
Cheers
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The specific author of Enoch is not known. Some scholars theorize that there were actually multiple authors or possibly an author and later editors.
As for 'the other books' in the 'Great Book' - what specifically are you referring to? Some books have more known about authorship than others.
There are various reasons why it was never canonized. A few of which -- the fact that it was obviously pseudepigrpahical, elements of the theological content that were suspicious to some of the ancients (like the discourses on angels, sacrifices, lack of references to historical core Jewish ideas), it's historical exclusion from the various Jewish cannons and deuterocanons.
