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Does the Ethiopian Bible include the Book of Enoch? ›

The 1st Book of Enoch, the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, or 1 Enoch is more known as simply the Book of Enoch. Although this book is considered apocryphal for the Western canon, it is contained in the Ethiopic Bible.

2 Enoch is a Jewish pseudepigraphon preserved solely in the Slavonic language. The central theme of the text is the celestial ascent of the seventh antediluvian patriarch Enoch through the heavens, his luminous metamorphosis near the Throne of Glory, and his initiation into the heavenly mysteries.

There are actually three books all called the Book of Enoch. There is First Enoch, Second Enoch, and Third Enoch. Books two and three were written many years after the first book.

Apart from this community, the Book of Enoch was excluded from both the formal canon of the Tanakh and the Septuagint and therefore, also from the writings known today as the Deuterocanon. The main reason for Jewish rejection of the book is that it is inconsistent with the teachings of the Torah.

He answered and said to me: 'This is the son of man who has righteousness, with whom dwells righteousness, and who reveals all the treasures of that which is hidden, because the Lord of the spirits has chosen him, and whose lot has the pre-eminence before the Lord of the spirits in uprightness for ever.

Enoch describes the ten heavens this way: The first heaven is just above the firmament (Genesis 1:6-7) where the angels control atmospheric phenomena such as the storehouses of snow and rain and the waters above. In the second heaven, Enoch finds darkness: a prison where rebel angels are tortured.

The Book of Enoch is apocalyptic in theme and discusses Enoch's experiences with fallen angels, divine secrets, and the fate of the human soul after death. Its various religious messages reflect the mindset of society over several centuries, leading to doubts about its authenticity and authorship.

The Book of Enoch tells the story of two hundred Watchers, or angels, sent to watch over humanity. These Watchers conspired to commit sins by taking human women as wives and having children with them. They also taught humans many skills relating to the different disciplines of science we practice today.

Is the Book of Enoch a biblical book? ›

I Enoch was at first accepted in the Christian Church but later excluded from the biblical canon. Its survival is due to the fascination of marginal and heretical Christian groups, such as the Manichaeans, with its syncretic blending of Iranian, Greek, Chaldean, and Egyptian elements.

Apocryphal texts. The Second Book of Enoch, also written in the first century CE, describes the mystical ascent of the patriarch Enoch through a hierarchy of Ten Heavens.

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According to the Book of Enoch, there are seven archangels: Uriel, Raphael, Raguel, Michael, Saraqael, Gabriel, and Remiel. Another angel, Phanuel, is not identified as an archangel, though he holds a very exalted position as one of four angels who serve in the presence of God.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has 46 books of the Old Testament and 35 books of the New Testament that will bring the total of canonized books of the Bible to 81. The Ethiopic version of the Old and New Testament was made from the Septuagint. It includes the book of Enoch, Baruch, and the third and fourth Esdras.

Unique to the Orthodox Tewahedo canon are the Paralipomena of Jeremiah (4 Baruch), Jubilees, Enoch, and the three books of Meqabyan.

It is believed that the Greek version was entirely translated and preserved in Gǝ'ǝz. Consequently, this book was not known in Europe until James Bruce, the Scottish explorer, took the manuscripts of Enoch from Ethiopia to England in 1773.

The Book of Enoch is any of several pseudepigraphal works that attribute themselves to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah; that is, Enoch son of Jared. Most commonly, the phrase "Book of Enoch" refers to 1 Enoch, which is wholly extant only in the Ethiopic language.