Question
Saint Jerome noted widespread doubts about this epistle’s authenticity due to its author’s citing of apocryphal texts. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this epistle allegedly written by a “brother of James” but now widely considered pseudepigraphal. It attacks false teachers who “reject authority” and “heap abuse on celestial beings.”
ANSWER: Epistle of Jude [accept Judah or Judas or ʼIoúdas]
[10e] Jude quotes a book that only became canonical in Ethiopia in which this great-grandfather of Noah sees fallen “Watchers” breeding with humans. Genesis states that this father of Methusaleh “walked with God.”
ANSWER: Enoch [or Ḥănōḵ or Hēnok; accept Book of Enoch, 1 Enoch, Sēfer Ḥănōḵ, or Maṣḥafa Hēnok]
[10h] Jude also cites Satan and Michael’s fight in an apocryphal text named for a “testament” or one of these events “of Moses.” John Damascene is called “Doctor” of one of these events discussed in the text Munificentissimus (“moo-NEE-fee-ken-TEE-see-mus”) Deus.
ANSWER: assumptions [or word forms of assume or transitus; accept Assumption of Mary; accept Assumption of Moses; prompt on on descriptions of being taken to Heaven]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 22 | 12.27 | 91% | 27% | 5% |
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| Berkeley A | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley B | Florida | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia A | Brown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto B | Chicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont Colleges | Ottawa | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Harvard | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| McGill | Illinois | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Iowa State | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Kentucky | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | NYU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | Waterloo | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Truman State | Stanford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto A | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Arizona State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |