Letter Of Jude Paper

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Jude is one of the shortest books in the Bible with only 25 verses. There are some, who even doubt that Jude should be a part of the canon of Scripture. However, it is well documented why God put this book in our Bible. The Book takes about 3 minutes and 30 seconds to read at podium speed. There is very little written about this Epistle. The letter of Jude is said to be focusing on the problems that aren't necessarily around us but it's more within us and it's a bit of a challenge. The goal of this academic paper is to answer the following questions: who is the author, what is the date of the given scripture, what the major issues is it addressing, how the writer responds to the major being discussed, and an application for us today. The letter …show more content…

The next task is to identify or at least have an estimation of when the letter was written. Those who think Jude is pseudonymous usually date it around it 100 A.D. From pseudonymous, from French pseudonyme (“having a false name”), from Ancient Greek ψευδώνυμος (pseudōnumos), from ψευδής (pseudēs, “false”) and ὄνυμα (onuma), from ὄνομα (onoma, “name”). Nevertheless, as we declared that it's most likely Jude the brother of the Jesus as the author. Hence the letter cannot be dated after 90 A.D, the latest we can realistically expect even a younger brother of Jesus to have lived. In addition to these view according to Richard Bauckham the letter was written or put together around 64-65 A.D. this is because of the "literary relationship between 2 Peter and Jude is to be explained by Jude's priority in that, Jude has used 2 Peter." If that is the case thus Bauckham date it around 64-65A.D. In conclusion, there is nothing definitive to really pinpoint an exact date and place at which in written. But, scholar says it may thus have been written about 66 or 70, and apparently in Palestine. Which makes sense if scholar claim that the author "Jude" was the brother of

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