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The "Book of Noah" is thought to be a non-extant (non-existent) Old Testament pseudepigraphical work, attributed to Noah. It is quoted in several places in another pseudepigraphical work, 1 Enoch and is mentioned in another, the Book of Jubilees. There have also been fragments attributed to a Book of Noah in the Dead Sea Scrolls. According to the scholarly work of Zachary K. Dawson at McMaster Divinity College, this "Book of Noah" was the source of the Noahide Laws. Scholar Jean Doresse alluded to the "Book of Noah" in his claim that the Christain Apocrypha "The Cave of Treasures" states that knowledge of "justice" from a book which was passed on to Noah from Seth, this wisdom was given to the Zoroastrians (Parsis) (here). I would also think that some would claim that this "Book of Noah" is the basis for the pseudo-Noahide Laws of the book of Jubilees (here).
Noahide Laws come from the Book of Noah
"Therefore, if a Book of Noah existed in the first century, then it follows that the Noahide laws were an established ITF in Jewish communities at the time Acts would have been written, which means that it becomes more likely that Luke is intentionally engaging this ITF in some way."- Zachary K. Dawson. "THE BOOKS OF ACTS AND JUBILEES IN DIALOGUE: A LITERARY-INTERTEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE NOAHIDE LAWS IN ACTS 15 AND 21". McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, Canada. Retrieved 08/03/2020 from: http://www.jgrchj.net/volume13/JGRChJ13-1_Dawson.pdf
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