The First Book of Enoch
Ethiopic Enoch: the Watchers, heavenly visions, judgement and the hope of the righteous. The complete text in 108 chapters.
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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
Ancient writings associated with biblical figures and traditions. The collection includes Ethiopic and Slavonic Enoch and the Book of Jubilees, also called The Little Genesis.
These are separate works, each with its own sources and history of transmission. Each is available to read online and download as a PDF in Russian and English.
The Second Book of Enoch
Slavonic Enoch: the ascent through the heavens, creation and instructions to Enoch’s children. 68 chapters and a separate Melchizedek appendix.
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The Book of Jubilees
The Little Genesis: from creation to Moses, the patriarchs, the covenant, festivals and the sacred calendar. The complete text in 50 chapters.
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The books are presented here as historical religious writings. Their status differs between traditions: First Enoch belongs to the canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. A title or a first-person narrative does not establish authorship by the historical Enoch.
First Enoch: A. V. Smirnov’s Russian translation (1888) and R. H. Charles’s English translation based on his 1912 edition. Second Enoch: W. R. Morfill’s English translation, edited by R. H. Charles (1896), and a new Russian translation based on that edition. Jubilees: A. V. Smirnov’s Russian translation (1895) and R. H. Charles’s English translation (1917 edition). Sources, recensions, numbering and scope are explained on each book’s page.
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