An ancient Jewish apocalyptic text attributed to the patriarch Enoch, treating the fall of the Watchers, cosmology and eschatology, regarded as scripture by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and influential on early Jewish and Christian thought though excluded from most other biblical canons. Belongs here: any passage drawn from this text. Does not belong here: passages from the separate later works 2 Enoch or 3 Enoch, tracked under their own entities where present.
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Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)
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1. Wikipedia: Book of Enoch
WikipediaWikipedia Book of Enoch, lead section, cultural-origin statement
The Book of Enoch...is an ancient Jewish apocalyptic religious text.
Wikipedia Book of Enoch, body text, era statement
The older sections of 1 Enoch are estimated to date to c. 300-200 BC.
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