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An unorthodox scholar uses technology to expose Biblical forgeries

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Re: An unorthodox scholar uses technology to expose Biblical forgeries

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Post by EscargotCult »

amusingimpala75 wrote: post #11

“Having done that (and lacking cash to buy Photoshop), he downloaded an open-source knockoff.” Anyone wanna bet it’s GIMP?

I can't imagine it being anything else in that year. That must have been a struggle-bus of a UI to work with for something this laborious, though.

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waynecochran wrote: post #3

The book of Enoch (a non-canonical pseudopigraphal book) is a wild story that expounds on the strange events of Genesis 6:1-4 and is quoted by Jude and Peter. The fact that some of the DSS versions contain forgeries is interesting. I have always suspected there were a very ancient Enoch texts that are now lost and what we do have contains many forgeries.

Oh shit I've never heard of this, I wonder if this is from where the recurring character in Neal Stephenson's books takes his name, "Enoch Root."

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

waynecochran wrote: post #3

The book of Enoch (a non-canonical pseudopigraphal book) is a wild story that expounds on the strange events of Genesis 6:1-4 and is quoted by Jude and Peter. The fact that some of the DSS versions contain forgeries is interesting. I have always suspected there were a very ancient Enoch texts that are now lost and what we do have contains many forgeries.

The Catholic Church at the Council of Rome formally defined what books were considered authentic and which ones were not (and this list was, with some reduction, also used by Protestants). The Book of Enoch was a bit contentious because of the quotation in an inspired book - but it was ultimately determined to be not inspired, and the quotation not necessarily either. (I.e. Imagine if scripture quoted a Roman decree - the decree is not inspired in spite of the quote.)

Despite this, the Book of Enoch and other rejected books do appear in some Bibles, with a warning about how they are apocryphal. Just because they aren’t inspired though (officially-speaking) doesn’t mean they can’t be interesting.

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Post by lapestenoire »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #17
waynecochran wrote: post #3

The book of Enoch (a non-canonical pseudopigraphal book) is a wild story that expounds on the strange events of Genesis 6:1-4 and is quoted by Jude and Peter. The fact that some of the DSS versions contain forgeries is interesting. I have always suspected there were a very ancient Enoch texts that are now lost and what we do have contains many forgeries.

The Catholic Church at the Council of Rome formally defined what books were considered authentic and which ones were not (and this list was, with some reduction, also used by Protestants). The Book of Enoch was a bit contentious because of the quotation in an inspired book - but it was ultimately determined to be not inspired, and the quotation not necessarily either. (I.e. Imagine if scripture quoted a Roman decree…

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