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The Book of Enoch or 1 Enoch: Notes is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Enoch, like the book of Daniel, was written partly in Aramaic and partly in Hebrew. Serious scholarship places this important pseudepigraph within the first two centuries before Christ. The translation is from Dillmann’s edition of the Ethiopic text, which was based on five manuscripts, nine uncollated Ethiopic manuscripts, and Greek and Latin fragments. This volume explains how evil...

of the second century B.C., and during the first century B.C., this book was regarded in certain circles as inspired. When we come down to the first century A.D., we find that it is recognized as Scripture by Jude. See under § 2, 1°. In the next century this recognition is given amply in the Ep. Barnabas xvi. 5 λέγει γὰρ ἡ γραφή; by Athenagoras, Legatio pro Christianis 24 ἃ τοῖς προφήταις ἐκπεφώνηται (referring to Enoch); in the third century by Clem. Alex. Eclog. Prophet. ii, see § 2,
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