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==Author==
==Author==
In the address of the Epistle the author styles himself "Jude, the servant of [[Jesus Christ]] and brother of James", indicating that the author is a brother of Jesus, a position which while previously strenuously denied by the [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] church in particular, is now considered the most likely.<ref>Charles, Daryl J. ''Literary Strategy in the Epistle of Jude'' (Scranton, PA; University of Scranton Press; 2005) ISBN 0-9408-6616-1</ref><ref>Gray, James M. [http://mb-soft.com/believe/txs/jude.htm ''Epistle of Jude''] Home Bible Study Commentary/Believe. Accessed 16 March 2008</ref> From the style, it is certain that the author was a [[Messianic Judaism|Jewish Christian]], and is very familiar with such Jewish-apocalyptic writings as the ''Ascension of Moses'', the [[Enoch]] ''Apocalypse'' and Jewish legends.<ref>Kummel, Werner Georg ''Introduction to the New Testament'' (SCM Press; 1991) ISBN 0-3340-0705-4</ref>
In the address of the Epistle the author styles himself "Jude, the servant of [[Jesus Christ]] and brother of James", indicating that the author is the half-brother of Jesus, a position which while previously strenuously denied by the [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] church in particular, is now considered the most likely.<ref>Charles, Daryl J. ''Literary Strategy in the Epistle of Jude'' (Scranton, PA; University of Scranton Press; 2005) ISBN 0-9408-6616-1</ref><ref>Gray, James M. [http://mb-soft.com/believe/txs/jude.htm ''Epistle of Jude''] Home Bible Study Commentary/Believe. Accessed 16 March 2008</ref> From the style, it is certain that the author was a [[Messianic Judaism|Jewish Christian]], and is very familiar with such Jewish-apocalyptic writings as the ''Ascension of Moses'', the [[Enoch]] ''Apocalypse'' and Jewish legends.<ref>Kummel, Werner Georg ''Introduction to the New Testament'' (SCM Press; 1991) ISBN 0-3340-0705-4</ref> The author's reference to the apostles implies that he was not one of them, and the purpose of the epistle "surely would have constrained him to assert the authority of his apostleship if he were one. The only Judas who elsewhere in the New Testament is said to have had a brother called James is Judas the brother of the Lord. James was a half-brother of our Lord. ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt.%2013:55;&version=9; Matt. 13:55], [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%206:3;&version=9; Mark 6:3], [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2012:46-47;&version=9; Matt. 12:46-47]). While during His earthly life the brethren of the Lord Jesus did not believe on Him, they are found among the disciples at the beginning of Acts and James became a foremost leader in the assembly at [[Jerusalem]]."<ref>Cross, Edwin N. [http://www.biblecentre.org/truthtestimony/2001/enc_jude.htm ''The Catholic Epistle Of Jude''] Biblecenter. Accessed 16 March 2008</ref>
==Provenance==
The epistle is listed in the [[Muratorian fragment]] (c. AD 175), was known to [[Tertullian]], and [[Clement of Alexandria]] uses proof texts from it. [[Origen]] spoke of it as "short indeed but filled with words that have been strengthened with heavenly grace." The assembly in [[Smyrna]] quotes from it in another letter written c. 155.
"The place of writing and the destination are alike unknown. The date of writing, assigned by the scholars, is between 67 and 80 AD. Peter's second epistle was written 67 - 68 AD and it may well have been that on receipt of that letter Jude wrote to those believers with whom he had a close connection and interest. The difference between the Epistle of Jude and the [[Second Epistle of Peter]] is that Peter speaks of sin whereas Jude of apostasy. Peter predicts that false teachers ''would'' arise and Jude states that they ''had'' come in."<ref>Cross, Edwin N. op cit</ref> Camerlynck, writing in The Catholic Encyclopedia, asserts: "Jude seems... to have been written before A.D. 70; otherwise in vv. 5-7 he would have spoken of the destruction of Jerusalem. In those verses St. Jude mentions the different punishments of prevaricators, and therefore in this exhortation to Hebrew Christians he could not have passed over in silence so dire a calamity. Moreover [textual evidence demonstrates] that the Epistle of St. Jude was written before II Peter, which latter was probably written A.D. 64. Therefore St. Jude must have been written shortly before 64... We prefer the opinion that the Epistle was written in [[Palestine]], and probably in Jerusalem."<ref>"Date and place of composition" [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08542b.htm ''Epistle of St. Jude''] Catholic Encyclopedia. Accessed 16 March 2008</ref>
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