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Title: The Book of Enoch the Prophet by Richard Laurence ISBN: 0-932813-85-2 Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (10 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Outdated translation
Comment: What is it about the Book of Enoch that generates such appeal? Presumably the same myth and magic elements that gave it such a following among 2nd temple Judaism. Enoch originated about 300BC, and the oldest copies, dating back to about 150BC are found among the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran.
The best modern translations are to be found in the G. Vermes or Martinez editions of the Scrolls, or in the J. Charlesworth OT Pseudepigrapha set from Doubleday. A facsimile edition of R.H. Charles' 1912 translation is also worth obtaining for the copious notes. This translation by Laurence is not in the same category.
Despite all the enthusiasm that surrounds this book it is worth remembering that it has always been contested. Trypho the Jew, the Talmud, Pseudo-Philo, all the Rabbis prior to the 8th Century, St. Augustine, St. Jerome were only a few to contest the midrash interpretation of "Sons of God" of Gen6:2 as angels. The book was rejected from the Jewish canon, the Septuagint and Vulgate, and consequently the Apocrypha. After 400AD it was preserved only in minority Ethiopian and Slavonic traditions.
It is often noted that Jude quotes from this book, which is true - although with obvious sarcasm as the context shows; Jude's epithet "the seventh from Adam" is taken from Enoch60:8 not Genesis. Tertullian did quote from it and consider it as scripture, along with various other pseudepigraphical and apocryphal literature. It is also true that Peter gets his details regarding the "angels that sinned" being cast into Tartarus from Enoch. As also is indicated by the mentions of "myths" and "cunningly devised fables" with which Peter precedes it. "Abraham's bosom" in Luke 16, however is not drawn from Enoch but from the beliefs of the Pharisees recorded in Jewish burial papyri and various pre-Rabbinical myths. Given that the central figure in Luke16:19-30 is none other than Caiaphas (who else do we know of in AD30 Jerusalem who had 5 brothers?) it is obvious that there is heavy irony in this reference.
Although it is occasionally claimed that there is nothing in Enoch that contradicts the Bible, 2Peter2 states quite clearly that "angels do not accuse such beings" - a blunt contradiction of 1Enoch10 where Michael Gabriel Uriel and Raphael do exactly that, accusing the mythical rebel angels. This is confirmed by Jude who even names Michael in his parallel rebuttal of 1Enoch. Further Christ states that Angels do not marry. Given that the only reference in the entire body of early Jewish literature to Angels marrying is the Enoch myth, this can only be a contradiction of 1Enoch.
In other words the writers of the New Testament knew about this book and rejected it. It is still interesting however to see what Peter and Jude's opponents were teaching.
Rating: 5
Summary: Facinating reading with the scrutiny of the Bible
Comment: Jude quotes from this book. It is interesting that many of the early church fathers (Theodotes, Origen, Tertullian, etc.) quote from it and consider it as scripture. It seems to have fallen out of favor with the later fathers and didn't make it into the canon. However, Jude, Hebrews and Revelation were also almost kicked out of the canon. Jude particularly because it quotes Enoch. But, Peter gets his details regarding the "angels that sinned" being cast into Tartarus from Enoch. Nowhere is this particular detail about the Genesis 6 "sons of God" mentioned in our Bible. Also, when Jesus describes "Abraham's bosom", His description either was directly from God, or from the book of Enoch, because Enoch describes the underworld in exactly the same way. Another interesting thing is that Enoch said the angels that sinned were to be judged after 70 generations. It is exactly 70 generations from Enoch to Jesus according to the gospel of Luke. Also, in the vision of the cows and wolves, there does not appear to be a break in time to support the current futurist interpretation of eschatology. Also, in the vision regarding the weeks, there is no break for an inserted "church age" either. Everything harmonizes with Daniel's 70 weeks as being continuous without any breaks between the 69th and 70th week. In other words, the book of Enoch does not agree with a futurist position of eschatology, but lends itself toward a preterist interpretation. This is not to exclude a "hidden" church age, but only that it is continuous like Daniel's 70 weeks. Also, if Enoch is really truth, it would go a long way to explain ancient earth history regarding some of the oddities of evidence regarding visitors from outer space and ancient knowledge seemingly superior to ours. Personally I didn't find anything in the book that contradicts our Holy Scriptures. It is very colorful reading even if you do not consider it as scripture. Also, I would ignore the translator's commentary that i! s interlaced throughout. I noticed quite a few typos also.
Rating: 3
Summary: Thus Spoke Enoch
Comment: The "Book of Enoch" is a lost manuscript of a book ascribed to the prophet Enoch, the antediluvian Old Testament Patriarch, seventh generation from Adam, whom God took into Heaven for his righteousness. It is also a tradition in the Church that Enoch (along with Elias) to witness for Christ against the Antichrist. The book is a part of the widespread Apocalyptic literature of its time, filled with visions of God, the Messiah, angels, the saints, Hell, Judgement, the ordering of the world, the Fall of Satan, etc. "Enoch" is a pseudepigraphal text ("falsely ascribed," i.e., the actual Enoch didn't write it) most likely written in Hebrew, and this translation was made into Ethiopic, the language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. It was probably written a few centuries or so before Christ. "Enoch" was clearly an influence to be reckoned with in the early Church because many of its passages parallel the New Testament, in particular the Gospels. Jude even quotes it in his Epistle, "Behold He comes with ten thousands of his saints to execute judgement..." (Enoch c2v1). Many Church Fathers alluded to it in their writings and it appears to have been accepted as authoritative by some of them. For instance, Origen used "Enoch" to compile his outline of Heaven's angelic hierarchy. It was not accepted as Scripture in either the Old or New Testaments in the long run however. The only Church that preserved it in translation was the Ethiopian Orthodox that remained totally isolated from the outside world until an English explorer brought three manuscripts of "Enoch" to Europe in the late 1700s. It's a curious fact of history that Ethiopia, along with Armenia and later the Roman Empire, was among the world's first officially Christian countries. An element of controversy in "Enoch" is certainly its depiction of the Watcher angels. These Watchers are the questionable "sons of God" recorded in Genesis 6 who lusted after the daughters of men, had intercourse with them and begot wicked children. The Watchers also instructed humans in the arts of sorcery, technology and encouraged the women to use makeup and other artifices to allure men, which brought God's wrath upon them. This explanation of the beginning of the world's evil is rather "unorthodox" however. Angels are not created either male or female and do not possess physical bodies and therefore would not have been able to impregnate human females. The edition of this book is poorly printed and makes uncomfortable reading. The font was enlarged and photocopied from the original printed editions back in the 1800s so it looks like a large print edition.
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Title: Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil: Why Church Fathers Suppressed the Book of Enoch and Its Startling Revelations by Elizabeth Clare Prophet ISBN: 0922729433 Publisher: Summit Univ Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Lost Books of the Bible by Rh Value Publishing ISBN: 0517277956 Publisher: Testament Pub. Date: 08 June, 1988 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English by Geza Vermes ISBN: 0140278079 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden by Frank Crane ISBN: 1881316637 Publisher: A & B Book Pub Dist Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Book of the Secrets of Enoch by R. H. Charles, W. R. Morfill ISBN: 1585090204 Publisher: Book Tree Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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