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==Provenance==

==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 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> Koester, however, contends that [[Syria]] is the most likely place in which it was written.<ref>Koester, Helmut ''Introduction to the New Testament'' (Walter de Gruyter & Co; 1995) ISBN 3-1101-4692-4</ref>

"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> Koester, however, contends that [[Syria]] is the most likely place in which it was written.<ref>Koester, Helmut ''Introduction to the New Testament'' (Walter de Gruyter & Co; 1995) ISBN 3-1101-4692-4</ref>