The Book of Enoch, interesting and unknown book to expand knowledge

The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish religious work, attributed by tradition to Noah's great-grandfather Enoch, although modern scholars estimate the first sections (mostly in the Book of the Watchers) from 300 BC, and the last part (Book of Parables) , probably at the end of the 1st century BC.

"The Scriptures will be given to them, they will believe and rejoice with them, all the righteous will rejoice to learn from them all the ways of righteousness."

The first sections of the book were composed in the 3rd century BC. The authors relied in part on the Pentateuch and expanded the sections of Genesis, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

The Book of Enoch is an intertestamental book, which forms part of the Coptic Church's canon of the Bible, but is not accepted as canonical by other Christian churches. The only intact versions of this book that are preserved are in Ge'ez, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Church, but several parts are known in Greek, Syrian, Armenian, Arabic and Latin and a fragment in Coptic. In addition, several fragments were found in Aramaic and one in Hebrew (4T317) in Qumran. Tradition has attributed its authorship to Enoch, Noah's great-grandfather.

The book was published in the first century of our era and consists of several parts written in the third century BC. C. and I A.D.

The book of Enoch consists of:

- Book of Watchers
- Book of Parables
- Astronomical Book
- Book of Dreams
- The Epistle of Enoch

The early Christians had great appreciation for the Book of Enoch, as can be seen in the canonical epistles of Jude (6 and 14-16) and 2 Peter (2:4), as well as the non-canonical epistles of Barnabas and the writings of Justin Martyr. 100-165), Athenagoras (170); Tatiano (110-172); Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon (115-185); Clement of Alexandria (150-220); Tertullian (160-230); Lactantius (260-325) and also those of Metodio de Filipo and Minucius Felix.

Undoubtedly, the Book of Enoch was widely known and appreciated in the Jewish world and was later inherited by the early Christians, who were largely responsible for preserving it in other languages. The Book of Enoch is classified as pseudepigraphic because its content is attributed to this legendary descendant of Adam, although the content and problems it narrates are clearly of later origin.

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