The Book of Enoch

Discover the, not too well-known, Book of Enoch

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Interesting and unknown book to expand knowledge

The Book of Enoch is an intertestational book, which is part of the canon of the Bible of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church but is not accepted as a canon by the other Christian churches. > In spite of having been found in some of the codices of the Septuagint (Vatican Codex and Papers Chester Beatty). The Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) include it in the Tanach, unlike the other Jews today, who exclude it.

Three other books of Enoch are known: the Second Book of Enoch (2 Enoch), written at the end of the first century or later and preserved in Church Slavic; The later (of composition after the fifth century), Third Book of Enoch (3 Enoch), in Hebrew; And the Coptic Enoch (4 Enoch), which dates from the fifth century and from which barely any parts have been found.

The early Christians had a great appreciation for the Book of Enoch, as can be seen in the canonical epistles of Judas (6 and 14-16) and 2 Peter (2: 4), as well as the non canonical 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 of Filipo, Minucius Felix, Comodiano and Prisciliano (m.

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