About this title: The Book of Enoch the Prophet is the oldest known existing mystical document and is referred to in the Hebrew Zohar, The Epistle of St. Jude, and other ancient books. Legend dates the text to antediluvian times, saved from the flood by Noah himself, while serious scholarship places its origin in the second century B.C.E, as old as ancient Sumeria ...
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Description: Brand New. Paperback. The oldest known mystical document still in existence, legend claims this text was rescued from the Flood by Noah himself. Scholars date it to the second century BC, noting its mention in the Hebrew Zohar and other ancient books. Most notable is its deviation from the Apocalypse predicted in the Bible, placing the Millennial heaven here on Earth rather than up in clouds. Esoteric scholar R.A. Gilbert's introduction to this new edition tells the manuscript's own ... read more
"Very good version of the Book of Enoch that incorporates many manuscripts. Reading this book I find nothing obviously heretical (e.g. gnostic, legalistic, or anything), but I don't believe it is necessarily inspired. It may or may not be written by the actual Enoch of the Bible. It's amazing however, the parallels to New Testament thought and the coming "Son of Man" (Jesus) that it refers to. Oldest fragments and manuscripts date to 200-100 BC. Jude v. 14-15 quotes a verse in Enoch 1. Well worth the read."
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