{"product_id":"why-1-enoch-jubilees-are-not-inspired-scripture-pdf-study","title":"Why 1 Enoch \u0026 Jubilees Are Not Inspired Scripture (PDF Study)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen discussions about the biblical calendar come up, two books are often brought into the conversation: 1 Enoch and Jubilees. But before we allow these writings to determine doctrine (or even use them to determine the biblical calendar) we have to really be able to evaluate whether these books are actually inspired Scripture. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this extensive study, we will examine the historical, textual, and theological evidence surrounding 1 Enoch and the Book of Jubilees, and explain why these writings should not be given the same authority as the Torah, Prophets, and Writings (the Tanakh\/Old Testament). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this study, we will examine:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--What the history of biblical canonization actually looked like—and why the claim that “Enoch and\/or Jubilees was removed from the Bible” is historically problematic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--What first-century contemporary sources say about the recognized Scriptures\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--The 22-book Old Testament tradition preserved by writers such as Josephus, Origen, and Cyril of Jerusalem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--Why the presence of a writing among the Dead Sea Scrolls does not automatically make that writing inspired Scripture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--The difference between a book being preserved, respected, quoted, or historically influential vs. being recognized as divine revelation from the Most High\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--The claim that Jude \u0026amp; Messiah quoted 1 Enoch, and whether that means the entire book must therefore be inspired\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003edetailed manuscript history of 1 Enoch, including the Aramaic fragments discovered at Qumran, the absence of surviving Hebrew manuscripts, and what the Ethiopic translation reveals about the textual traditions preserved in the manuscripts that have survived\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--The significant textual problem surrounding 1 Enoch 71 and its identification of Enoch with the “Son of Man”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--The theological implications of 1 Enoch 40:9 and its description of the angel Penu’el as being over repentance and the hope of eternal life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--The Second Temple Period development of angelology, heavenly journeys, cosmic mysteries, and elaborate heavenly hierarchies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--The significance of the term “watchers” and its connection to the linguistic and theological world of Daniel and later Jewish literature\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--The historical references within 1 Enoch that point toward a Second Temple Period setting rather than the pre-Flood world of the biblical Enoch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--The heavenly luminaries and the differences between the cosmology of 1 Enoch and the testimony of the Tanakh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--The 364-day calendar presented in 1 Enoch and Jubilees—and why I believe these writings should not be used as the foundation for determining Yahuah’s appointed times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--The Book of Jubilees and its claim to be revelation given to Moses\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--Jubilees’ expansion and reinterpretation of biblical history\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--Jubilees’ claims concerning Sukkot, Shavuot, Sabbath observance, and fasting\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--The tensions between Jubilees and specific commandments found in the Torah\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--Jubilees’ treatment of the nations and the descendants of Lot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e--Why we should allow the Tanakh to test extra-biblical writings, rather than allowing later writings to become the lens through which we reinterpret the Tanakh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis study is not only an invitation to ask the right questions to evaluate these extra-biblical books...it is an invitation, reminder, and encouragement to slow down, examine the evidence honestly, and most importantly:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTest everything against the Scriptures. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Test all things;\u003cspan class=\"apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehold fast what is good.\u003c\/span\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e1 Thessalonians 5:21\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI pray this study is a blessing to you. 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