[url=https://www.galaxie.com/article/tynbul64-1-06][/url] Evil is temporary; righteousness is forever. God's revelation will not be hidden or censored. The righteous remnant will always remain. This is what the Book of Enoch teaches. But the book was never given the status of scripture in western christianity despite its status as scripture in the Ethiopian Orhtodox Church and despite the existance of Greek Manuscripts of the text. As early as 200AD there was alrreaddy a dispute between western Christians about whether Enoch was scripture. TTertullian wrote in On the Apparel of Women 1.3 that Christians who do not receive Enoch as Scriptures should be reprimanded and says that Chrisitans shouldd not reject the text merely because the Jews rejected dthe text. This is fascinating in part, because not all of the Jews rejected 1 Enoch. There is evidence certain Jews during the second temple period wrote commentaries on the Book of Enoch and consideredd it scripture.
A Pesherim is a commentary or official interpretation of a text. Pesherim were typically created for prophetic books and there are surviving pesherim for nearly all books of what is called the prophets of the Old Testament. Pesherim were not made for the Torah, first five books of the bible. But, pesherim were not made for books which were not considered inspired scripture. Of course, at this time, the idea of a "canon" in the Latin sense did not exist. But, the second temple communities, which had limited resources, only made pesherim commentaries for the most sacred texts. Generally if a pesherim exists, the text for the pesherim is almost always found in both all western christian bibles today. But there are a few exceptions. The most intriguing is a fragment of an alleged pesherim for the book of enoch. If such a fragment does exist, then it would tend to show that at least some people living during Jesus's day considered the book of enoch scirpture and inspired. Enough people read it for there to be official interpretations of the text.
The Israel Antiquities Society came to decipher a fragment of a manuscript they catalog as"4QPesher on the Apocalypse of Weeks". https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive/manuscript/4Q247-1?locale=en_US The Apocalypse of Weeks is a section of 1 Enoch 93:1-10 an 91:11-17.. https://www.galaxie.com/article/tynbul64-1-06 Of course, there is a disagreement about what the fragment shows. All scholars agree the fragment exists and date it to the Herodian period, but they disagree about whether it is actually a pesherim. The Israel Antiquites Society maintains it is a fragment of a pesherim. Shani Tzoref argues the fragment is just an interpretation of a historical period, and not an official pesherim. https://www.academia.edu/47571358/Pesher_and_Periodization While scholars disagree about what the fragment shows, they do agree that if the document is a pesherim, that would bee significant evidence that Enochic literatre was authoritative during the Herodian period. https://www.asau.ru/files/pdf/2344049.pdf?utm_source
Regardless of your tradition, the discovery of this fragment is significant to understand the context of the New Testament and what people in the second temple period were reading during Jesus's time. The Apocalpyse of weeks teaches that evil is temporary and righteousness is forever. The discovery of Enochic material at Qumran tends tot show the New Testament texts of revelattion and Hebrews drew heavily upon them and included remarkably similiar symbolic structures. https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-temple-according-to-1-enoch?utm_source=chatgpt.com This then creates the question of qhether
A Pesherim is a commentary or official interpretation of a text. Pesherim were typically created for prophetic books and there are surviving pesherim for nearly all books of what is called the prophets of the Old Testament. Pesherim were not made for the Torah, first five books of the bible. But, pesherim were not made for books which were not considered inspired scripture. Of course, at this time, the idea of a "canon" in the Latin sense did not exist. But, the second temple communities, which had limited resources, only made pesherim commentaries for the most sacred texts. Generally if a pesherim exists, the text for the pesherim is almost always found in both all western christian bibles today. But there are a few exceptions. The most intriguing is a fragment of an alleged pesherim for the book of enoch. If such a fragment does exist, then it would tend to show that at least some people living during Jesus's day considered the book of enoch scirpture and inspired. Enough people read it for there to be official interpretations of the text.
The Israel Antiquities Society came to decipher a fragment of a manuscript they catalog as"4QPesher on the Apocalypse of Weeks". https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive/manuscript/4Q247-1?locale=en_US The Apocalypse of Weeks is a section of 1 Enoch 93:1-10 an 91:11-17.. https://www.galaxie.com/article/tynbul64-1-06 Of course, there is a disagreement about what the fragment shows. All scholars agree the fragment exists and date it to the Herodian period, but they disagree about whether it is actually a pesherim. The Israel Antiquites Society maintains it is a fragment of a pesherim. Shani Tzoref argues the fragment is just an interpretation of a historical period, and not an official pesherim. https://www.academia.edu/47571358/Pesher_and_Periodization While scholars disagree about what the fragment shows, they do agree that if the document is a pesherim, that would bee significant evidence that Enochic literatre was authoritative during the Herodian period. https://www.asau.ru/files/pdf/2344049.pdf?utm_source
Regardless of your tradition, the discovery of this fragment is significant to understand the context of the New Testament and what people in the second temple period were reading during Jesus's time. The Apocalpyse of weeks teaches that evil is temporary and righteousness is forever. The discovery of Enochic material at Qumran tends tot show the New Testament texts of revelattion and Hebrews drew heavily upon them and included remarkably similiar symbolic structures. https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-temple-according-to-1-enoch?utm_source=chatgpt.com This then creates the question of qhether