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3 unusual facts about Book of Enoch


Andreas Gottlieb Hoffmann

Hoffmann was the author of an acclaimed work on Syriac grammar (Grammatica syriaca) (1827), and was responsible for a German version of the Book of Enoch based on Richard Laurence's "Book of Enoch the Prophet" called Das Buch Henoch in vollständiger Uebersetzung.

Book of Enoch

The relation between 1 Enoch and the Essenes was noted even before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Thomas Tomkinson

The writer of Jude knows and esteems the Book of Enoch even though this work was lost in Tomkinson's day.


Chester Beatty Papyri

The last manuscript in the Chester Beatty Papyri, XII, contains chapters 97-107 of the Book of Enoch and portions of an unknown Christian homily attributed to Melito of Sardis.

Pseudepigrapha

Examples of books labeled Old Testament pseudepigrapha from the Protestant point of view are the Ethiopian Book of Enoch, Jubilees (both of which are canonical in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, and the Beta Israel sect of Judaism); the Life of Adam and Eve and "Pseudo-Philo".

Sons of God

Józef Milik and Matthew Black advanced the view of a late text addition to a text dependent on post-exilic, non-canonical tradition, such as the legend of the Watchers from the pseudepigraphic Book of Enoch.


see also

Priesthood of Melchizedek

Others still maintain that Melchizedek is actually Archangel Michael: Michael is designated in the apocryphal Book of Enoch and the canonical Book of Daniel as "the prince of Israel".

Tamiel

His name is usually translated as "perfection of God" (the combination of tamiym and El-God) but Tamiel is also called either Kasdeja (also Kasdaye, "kahs-DAH-yay", כַּשְׂדַּי, "Chaldean") or Kasyade (compd. of Heb.: כסה kasah "to conceal" + יד yad "hand, power", meaning "covered hand" or "hidden power") in the Book of Enoch, Chapter 69.