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The brief Epistle of Jude is a book in the Christian New Testament canon.
The epistle claims to have been written by "Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James" ( NIV), although that authorship is doubted by many scholars. As opinions and traditions within the Christian community still differ as to the identity of Jude or Judas, the brother of Jesus and James, the issues of the apostle's identity are discussed at Jude Thomas.
Norman Perrin writes (The New Testament: An Introduction, p. 260), "The letter is pseudonymous, as is all the literature of emergent catholicism in the New Testament." Though the text claims to come from Jude, who is called also "Lebbaeus" ( Matthew 10:3) and " Thaddaeus" ( Mark 3:18), its real authorship was called into question when Origen first spoke of the doubts held by some—albeit not him. Eusebius classified it with the "disputed writings, the antilegomena , and though it was eventually accepted within the canon (as early as the Muratorian canon ), later writers largely objected to its citations of apocryphal literature, unusual in New Testament books.
Doubts regarding its authenticity were revived at the time of the Reformation. The debate has continued over the author's identity as the apostle, the brother of Jesus, both, or neither.
Since at least the beginning of the 20th century the Epistle of Jude has been considered an anonymous work composed as late as the first quarter of the 2nd century. Based on the nature of the allusions to the SeptuagintThe Septuagint (LXX is the name commonly given to the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible ( Old Testament) made in the first centuries BC. The Septuagint bible includes additional books beyond those used in today's Jewish Tanakh. The additional books we translation of the Old TestamentThe Old Testament or the Hebrew Scriptures constitutes the first major part of the Christian Bible, usually divided into the categories law, history, poetry (or wisdom books) and prophecy. All of those books were written before the birth of Jesus. Canon o, citations of rabbinical works like the Book of EnochThe Book of Enoch is an Old Testament pseudepigraphal apocrypha attributed to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. Scholars date its composition to the 2nd century BC. The title is mentioned in the Bible ( Jude 14), but there is debate over whether Jude and the Apocalypse of Moses , the earliest apostolic followers seen by this author from some distance in time, and the appropriation of the authority of the historical Jude, current belief places its composition in PalestineFor varying definitions, see definitions of Palestine. Palestine ( Latin: Syria Palaestina Hebrew: Palestina Eretz Yisrael Arabic: Filasin , is a region in the Middle East extending inland from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Its political sta, in the first quarter of the 2nd century.