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1. For this and other reasons, the traditional Ethiopian belief is that the original language of the work was Ge'ez, whereas non-Ethiopian scholars tend to assert that it was first written in either Aramaic or Hebrew; Ephraim Isaac suggests that the Book of Enoch, like the Book of Daniel, was composed partially in Aramaic and partially in Hebrew. [3]:6 No Hebrew version is known to have survived.
2. It was no longer possible to claim that the core of the Book of Enoch was composed in the wake of the Maccabean Revolt as a reaction to Hellenization. [44]:93 Scholars thus had to look for the origins of the Qumranic sections of 1 Enoch in the previous historical period, and the comparison with traditional material of such a time showed that these sections do not draw exclusively on categories and ideas prominent in the Hebrew Bible.
3. Some scholars speak even of an "Enochic Judaism" from which the writers of Qumran scrolls were descended. [45] Margaret Barker argues, "Enoch is the writing of a very conservative group whose roots go right back to the time of the First Temple". the idea of the origin of the evil caused by the fallen angels, who came on the earth to unite with human women. 5.
4. The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch;[1] Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ mets’iḥāfe hēnoki) is an ancient Jewish religious work, ascribed by tradition to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah.
5. Some of the authors of the New Testament were familiar with some of the content of the story. [4] A short section of 1 Enoch (1:9) is cited in the New Testament, Epistle of Jude, Jude 1:14–15, and is attributed there to "Enoch the Seventh from Adam" (1 En 60:8), although this section of 1 Enoch is a midrash on Deuteronomy 33.
6. The older sections (mainly in the Book of the Watchers) of the text are estimated to date from about 300 BC, and the latest part (Book of Parables) probably to the first century BC.
7. Most Christian denominations and traditions may accept the Books of Enoch as having some historical or theological interest, but they generally regard the Books of Enoch as noncanonical or noninspired.
8. It is asserted in the book itself that its author was Enoch, before the Biblical Flood.
9. According to this scholar, who studied the original scrolls for many years, the oldest fragments of the Book of Watchers are dated to 200–150 BC.
10. Several copies of the earlier sections of 1 Enoch were preserved among the Dead Sea Scrolls.
11. Since the Book of Watchers shows evidence of multiple stages of composition, it is probable that this work was extant already in the 3rd century BC. [43] The same can be said about the Astronomical Book.
12. It is wholly extant only in the Ge'ez language, with Aramaic fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls and a few Greek and Latin fragments.
13. The 1976 publication by Milik[38] of the results of the paleographic dating of the Enochic fragments found in Qumran made a breakthrough.