enoch-research/frameworks/authority_canon_and_use/INDEX.md

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/