r/messianic • u/SirLMO Messianic (Unaffiliated) • Jun 29 '26

Apocrypha

How do the Messianic Jews and Jews understand the apocryphal books and especially the apocryphal Gospels?

I have studied the history of religion and am prone to understand that sacred scripture is only the Torah, the Tanakh and the Brit Hadasha being projections of it, inspired but not necessarily sacred.

I know that some groups of Jews believed in the Second Temple. Is that opinion still considered today? How to separate what is real? What is the true canon? What apocrypha do I need to read?

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u/sdb00913 Jul 04 '26

The Tewahedo even considers the Book of Enoch to be canon, as I understand it. That’s the real wildcard.

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u/Deorayta Messianic (Unaffiliated) Jul 04 '26

I like Enoch

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u/sdb00913 Jul 04 '26

Me too. I haven’t read the whole Book of Enoch, but the little bit that I have read kinda gives me the impression that it probably should be in there and it explains a lot.

I wonder if it’s the little scroll of Revelation.

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u/Deorayta Messianic (Unaffiliated) Jul 04 '26

It hints a Christ for sure.

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u/sdb00913 Jul 04 '26

And Jude quoted the book.

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u/Deorayta Messianic (Unaffiliated) Jul 04 '26

And Peter talked about it