Book Of Enoch

The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch also, or Ethiopian Enoch) is a written pseudepigraphic of the Old Testament attributed to Enoch , the great-grandfather of Noah. It is part of the canon of the Old Testament of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church but is rejected by Jews and is not included in the Bible called the Septuagint. It has been officially ruled out of the canonical books to 364 at the Council of Laodicea (canon 60), and it has been regarded as apocryphal by the other Churches Christian. But he was known in the West, at least indirectly, and we find such influence on the passages devoted to the calendar in the texts Hiberno-Latin , as Altus prosator.

Summary 1 Writing 2 Sources 3 Content 4 Influence 5 Notes and references 6 See also 6.1 Bibliography 6.2 Article Related

/ / Writing

Its membership is estimated at ^third century BC. AD . Before the discovery of fragments in Aramaic among the Dead Sea Scrolls , RH Charles had already identified that chapters 1-5 were written in Hebrew , using the Masoretic Text of Deuteronomy

Sources

The famous Scottish traveler James Bruce who was the first brought from Ethiopia to Britain in 1773, three copies of this book, long sought by European scholars .

The original version in Aramaic was considered lost until we found fragments at Qumran in 1976 among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Some passages in Greek were preserved by George Syncellus in the ninth ^century (published in 1606), and also various fragments in the manuscripts preserved in the Vatican library (published in 1844), in a tomb discovered in Egypt in 1886 to Akhmim ( published in 1892) and the library of the University of Michigan (published 1937). There are also various fragments in Latin, Syriac and Coptic.

Content

• 1-36 The first section of the describes the rebellion and fall of the fallen angels and visionary several trips to heaven and hell in the company of archangels which are various revelations.
• 37-71 The second section contains parables and visions concerning the end times and the Last Judgement. This section contains the book of the Apocalypse of Noah.
• 72-82 The third section is a treatise on astronomy and meteorology.
• 83-90 The fourth section is a collection of visionary dreams.
• The fifth section 91-107 says contains a set of exhortations and annunciation.

Influence

The Epistle of Jude quotes a prophecy that the author attributes to "Enoch the seventh from Adam"

• Jude 14-15 "Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied to them, saying: Behold, the Lord has come amidst his holy myriads, to execute judgments against all, and to report to all are ungodly among them of all acts of wickedness they have committed and all the insulting words uttered against him What ungodly sinners "

Verses of 1 Enoch:

• 1 Enoch 60:8 "Enoch the seventh from Adam"
• 1 Enoch 1:9 "Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads, to execute judgments against all, and to realize all that are ungodly among them of all acts of wickedness they have committed and all What's insulting words uttered against him ungodly sinners ".

And the likely source of this section of 1 Enoch:

• Deuteronomy 33:2 "And he came out of the midst of myriads holy: They have the right to fire sent to the law."

It is unclear whether the author of Jude was aware that the words were actually from Moses , not the Enoch of Genesis. There is also a problem of grammar. It is unclear why the author of Jude wrote "prophesied to them" and not "prophesied about them."

• Quotation from the Book of Jubilees on Enoch: Enoch was the first man among men who were born on earth who taught writing and knowledge and wisdom and who wrote a book the signs of heaven in order of their months so that men know the seasons of the year in order of their months of separation. And he was the first to write a testimony and testified that the son of men among the generations of the earth, and made the counting of the weeks of jubilees and informed them daily for years and put in order the months and counting of Sabbaths years and we () have advised him.

References

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