# Authority, Canon, and Use

## Purpose

This framework studies the distinction between:
- canon
- inspiration
- authority
- usefulness
- quotation
- dependence
- conceptual inheritance

It exists to prevent the research portfolio from collapsing all source relationships into a single category.

## Why it matters

A text does not need to be canonical to be:
- important
- influential
- interpretively necessary
- conceptually formative
- used by biblical writers

## Current supporting sources

- `sources/transcripts/heiser/nbp_093_book_of_enoch_in_the_early_church/`
