Editing Epistle of Jude (section)

===Date===
The date of composition is not known, but is loosely speculated to be between the years 50 and 110.  If the epistle was written by the Jude mentioned in the gospels, that would place it sometime in the early apostolic age of {{circa|50&ndash;70}} before [[Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)|the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem]]; if the letter reflects "early catholicism" and the beginnings of an organized church, then a date of the last decade of the first century or the early second century ({{circa|90&ndash;110}}) is indicated; and if the letter is an attack on [[Gnosticism]], then a much later date is indicated, perhaps around 150 AD.<ref>{{harvnb|Neyrey|1993|pp=29–31}}.</ref><ref>''[http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/0265-0339,_Eusebius_Caesariensis,_Historia_ecclesiastica_%5BSchaff%5D,_EN.pdf Historia Ecclesiastica]'', translated by Arthur Cushman McGiffert. See footnote on p. 203 by McGiffert.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Perry|first=Peter S.|chapter=Jude|pages=513–516|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible |date=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=9780195377378}}</ref>  Scholars who consider the letter a [[pseudonym]]ous work generally favor the later dates due to the letter's references to the [[Apostles in the New Testament|apostles]] (as if they lived in the past)<ref>{{bibleverse|Jude|1:17-18|NRSV|Jude 17–18}}</ref> and to an authoritative tradition,<ref>{{bibleverse|Jude|1:3|NRSV|Jude 3}}</ref> and because of its competent Greek style.<ref name=NAB>{{cite web|url=http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/jude/jude.htm|publisher=[[United States Conference of Catholic Bishops]]|title=Jude|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110428095357/https://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/jude/jude.htm|archive-date=2011-04-28}}</ref><ref name="perrin">{{cite book |last1=Perrin |first1=Norman |author-link=Norman Perrin |last2=Duling |first2=Dennis C. |date=1982 |orig-date=1974 |title=The New Testament: An Introduction |edition=Second |publisher=Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |pages=379–381 |isbn=}}</ref>{{sfn|Bauckham|1983|pp=13-16}} [[Bo Reicke]] suggests around 90 AD; Heikki Räisänen concurs and believes that it may have been written at the end of the first century.<ref name=Reicke1964/><ref>Heikki Räisänen, The Rise of Christian Beliefs: The Thought World of Early Christians, p. 66. "The Epistle of Jude is another letter written in the name of a brother of Jesus, perhaps toward the end of the first century. It consists of a vicious attack against some other Christians."</ref> [[Bart Ehrman]] also agrees that toward the end of the first century is the most likely, due to use of certain terminology in ways similar to the [[pastoral epistles]] that match a late first century date.<ref name=Ehrman2012/>