Reading what NT Writers were reading?

[Stope]

In addition to the OT that my ESV has, what other books were NT writers reading (like Enoch)?

 

[yeutter]

The Books of the Apocrypha would probably have been readily available and widely read. That would include those apocryphal books that are not in the Roman Catholic canon but are in the canon of most of the canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches. How widely circulated, some of the non canonical literature found in the Dead Sea scrolls, is questionable.

 

[arapahoepark]

Paul was evidently familar with the Greek poets since his mentor was a little more 'liberal' in that area learning more than just the Torah.

 

[yeutter]

Philo of Alexandria was a contemporary of the Apostles, but I doubt that his writings were in wide circulation during his lifetime. Paul might have read him, but I see no evidence of that in Paul's writings.