Books Quoted by the Bible

It was mostly the Aramaic speaking Mid-Eastern churches that did not accept the five astericked books as cannon. They probably simply did not understand Revelation. Jude was rejected on the grounds that it quoted the book of Enoch in Jude 1:4-5 (which matches Enoch 1:9 word-for-word) and they felt like cannonizing Jude meant they had to accept the book of Enoch as canon as well, which traditionally was not included. Jude also quotes from a book called The Assumption of Moses. which is also called the Testament of Moses in Jude 1:9, which says "even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!"". However, the Tanak references many non-biblical writings that were not accepted as canon, but it only references the fact they exist of allude to their content, but never quotes them directly as a source like Jude did. Books referenced by the Bible, but not included in the Bible, are...

Eventually, this list helped bring acceptance to the book of Jude. In the end, most parts of the world accepted all 27 books based on authorship - anything authored by the first 12 apostles, or under their authority was accepted. Anything not was rejected.