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Pseudo-Scripture: Why 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and Jasher Are Not Inspired Scripture
100 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 21, 2026
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David Wilber
15 books25 followersDavid Wilber is an author, Bible teacher, and CEO of Pronomian Publishing LLC. He has written several books and numerous theological articles, with his work appearing in outlets such as the Christian Post and the Journal of Biblical Theology. David has spoken at churches and conferences across the nation and has served as a researcher and Bible teacher for a number of Messianic and Christian ministries. David earned his BA in Biblical Studies from Charlotte Christian College and Theological Seminary, where he had the honor of being chosen as Valedictorian of his graduating class. He is currently working toward his MA in Religion at Southern Evangelical Seminary.
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July 9, 2026
When a Christian starts realizing that the mainstream church isn't necessarily correct about some of its theology, he/she is naturally tempted to go too far on that thought. Some within the Torah-observant crowd have definitely done just that. Examples include rejecting the Trinity, thinking that Jesus didn't actually die for our sins, subscribing to Da-Vinci-Code-esque "the Catholic Church ruined everything" psuedo-history, etc. These should all be countered by pronomian writers comprehensively, one at a time. However, one of the most pressing of these is the idea that books like 1 Enoch, Jasher, and Jubilees were unfairly "removed" from our Bibles and should be put back in. David Wilber does an excellent job of refuting this view in his new book Pseudo-Scripture: Why 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and Jasher Are Not Inspired Scripture.
Wilber points out how those three books were never in the biblical canon in the first place and how they contradict Scripture. By doing so, he demonstrates why neither Judaism nor Christianity has ever considered 1 Enoch, the ben Samuel edition of Jasher, or Jubilees to be God-inspired Scripture, and it's not because either the rabbis or the church fathers were part of a satanic conspiracy to cover them up. It was because those books were neither written at the time they claim to be written nor do they harmonize with the theology of the biblical canon.
In addition, Pseudo-Scripture debunks numerous claims for the alleged authenticity of those three books, many of them presented by YouTuber Sean Griffin but some others by social media personalities like Timothy Alberino, Zach Bauer, and Adam Fink. It also devotes a chapter to showing how the Eth Cepher - a so-called Bible translation popular among thousands of Hebrew Roots Christians - is tremendously skewed toward novelty rather than translational accuracy. In short, the book provides a great scholarly - but also easy-to-read - treatment of why Christians should not view 1 Enoch, Jasher, or Jubilees as having the same authority as Genesis, Matthew, and Revelation. I highly recommend it to all who are unsure on how they should perceive those apocryphal books.
Wilber points out how those three books were never in the biblical canon in the first place and how they contradict Scripture. By doing so, he demonstrates why neither Judaism nor Christianity has ever considered 1 Enoch, the ben Samuel edition of Jasher, or Jubilees to be God-inspired Scripture, and it's not because either the rabbis or the church fathers were part of a satanic conspiracy to cover them up. It was because those books were neither written at the time they claim to be written nor do they harmonize with the theology of the biblical canon.
In addition, Pseudo-Scripture debunks numerous claims for the alleged authenticity of those three books, many of them presented by YouTuber Sean Griffin but some others by social media personalities like Timothy Alberino, Zach Bauer, and Adam Fink. It also devotes a chapter to showing how the Eth Cepher - a so-called Bible translation popular among thousands of Hebrew Roots Christians - is tremendously skewed toward novelty rather than translational accuracy. In short, the book provides a great scholarly - but also easy-to-read - treatment of why Christians should not view 1 Enoch, Jasher, or Jubilees as having the same authority as Genesis, Matthew, and Revelation. I highly recommend it to all who are unsure on how they should perceive those apocryphal books.
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