《《The second book of Enoch》(以诺二书)》狱蛇

5、Authorship

　　Although several hypotheses about Christian authorship of the book were proposed, none of them was able to withstand scholarly criticism. Besides the early hypothesis about the Bogomil provenance of the work (Maunder, 1918) that was met with skepticism, the most consistent effort of justifying the Christian provenance of the work was offered by the French Slavist André Vaillant (Vaillant, 1952). His position was later supported by Josef Milik who argued that the apocalypse was written by a Byzantine monk in the ninth century C.E. (Milik, 1976). Both Vaillant’s and Milik’s positions generated substantial critical responses since the vast majority of readers of 2 Enoch had been arguing for the Jewish provenance of the original core of the text.