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Jude and His Sources: Non-Canonical Books

Phillip J. Long:

It is possible that Jude uses these texts because they are popular with the false teachers. In my post on Jude's use of the Hebrew Bible I commented that Jude alludes to the wilderness tradition frequently, perhaps his opponents used the wilderness tradition and a book like 1 Enoch in their own teaching. The allusion to the Testament of Moses may be appropriate since the event took place in the wilderness and the end of that period of...