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Why didnt the book of Enoch make the Biblical cut?
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Shlama:
The book of Enoch is not included in the Jewish canon, which closed with Malachi, Zechariah and Haggai at the time of Ezra the scribe. The book of Enoch was part of the corpus of Jewish literature, which includes the Dead Sea Scrolls. Jewish literature written after Ezra the Scribe and later through the Hasmonian Dynastic period was the literary backdrop pointing to the Messianic era.
The Ethiopic Church is credited with the preservation of the book of Enoch in Ge'ez. In my opinion the Ethiopian Church, with its special relationship with ancient Judaism felt compelled to preserve some of the Jewish messianic and apocalyptic literature and with it the "Jewish mindset". The Jewish Bible is unchanged in the Assyrian Church, the Byzantine Church (later western churches) and the Ethiopian church. However, these Christian churches deal differently with "inter-testamental literature". The western Catholic church has preserved the Apocrypha, including Tobit, while the Protestant churches have dropped these books. The Western Five (II Peter, II John, III John, Jude and the book of Revelation) have been preserved in western Christianity while the Assyrian Church of the East has received only the Jewish Bible and the 22 book Aramaic Peshitta. Interestingly, Enoch 1:9 is quoted in the epistle of Jude.
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Shlama,
Stephen
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Re: Why didnt the book of Enoch make the Biblical cut? - by Stephen Silver - 05-26-2009, 05:11 PM

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