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Book Of Enoch Minitext

A printer friendly 11 pages of the complete Book of Enoch . The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch ; [note 1] Hebrew: סֵפֶר חֲנוֹךְ, Sēfer Ḥănōḵ ; Ge'ez : መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ , Maṣḥafa Hēnok ) is an ancient Hebrew apocalyptic religious text, ascribed by tradition to the patriarch Enoch who was the great-grandfather of Noah . [1] [2] The Book of Enoch contains unique material on the origins of demons and Nephilim , why some angels fell from heaven, an explanation of why the Genesis flood was morally necessary, and a prophetic exposition of the thousand-year reign of the Messiah . Three books are traditionally attributed to Enoch, including the distinct works 2 Enoch and 3 Enoch . None of the three books are considered to be canonical scripture by the majority of Jewish or Christian church bodies. The older sections 1 Enoch (mainly in the Book of the Watchers) of the text are estimated to date from about 300–200 BC, and the latest part (Book of Parables) is probably to 100 BC. [3] Modern scholars believe that Enoch was originally written in either Aramaic or Hebrew , the languages first used for Jewish texts; Ephraim Isaac suggests that the Book of Enoch, like the Book of Daniel , was composed partial

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