The Book of the Prophet Enoch Recovered, an Update

I have updated this post from when I first posted it.  Enjoy.
The Book of the Prophet Enoch is the oldest book in the bible. Unfortunately, most copies of the Bible today leave it out. There is evidence that Enoch was included in the Septuagent translation that was the most common Bible at the time of Christ. But by the time of the Christian counsels that set the cannon of Christian scripture, it was all but lost to the common reader.

In the late first century AD, the scribes at the Counsel of Joppa, a gathering of the Jewish leadership, were given the task of producing a Bible for use in the synagogues that left out the pesky referrences to that Nazerine trouble maker that just wouldn’t go away. So the Maseretic Text was produced with vowells added and words separated. The only problem they had was that one book had too many referrences to the life and works of Christ to be able to merely make a few changes and include it. So it was removed.

Most Christian communities relied on the local synagogue to set the cannon of Old Testament scripture, and they in turn relied upon the scribes. So this book, older than the book of Job and the most quoted in both the Old and New Testaments, was discarded by most Christian communities. I say most because there were monks in the Syrian desert that kept the full scripture collection that had been handed down from the time of Jesus. When the Iconoclast heresey caused persecution throughout the Eastern Roman Empire, these monks escaped to Ethiopia, where they translated their entire collection of Holy scriptures into the Coptic tongue.

Late in the Nineteenth Century, a Brittish Scholastic scholor named Charles, a Sexton in the Anglican Church, discovered the Ethiopian Coptic Bible, and with it the Book of the Prophet Enoch. He happily translated the book he found into English as a demonstration of his mental prowess. His unfortunate translation is the only one extent in English to this day. But someone versed in the rest of the Bible and the original languages the books were written in can piece together what the book was ment to say.

I said the Book of the Prophet Enoch is the oldest book in the Bible, older than the book of Job. Unless you want to claim the Bible is full of inaccuracies and lies, you must believe what the book says about its authorship. According to the book itself, three quarters of it was written before the flood by Enoch himself, before he was translated by God to live in Heaven. The rest was written by Noah after the rain flooded the land. (Now we know what he did to keep busy between mucking out the stalls and feeding the critters.)

The book contains a series of visions Enoch had as he sat alone with God, as well as a few sermons to his family (Which includes us, since he considered everyone who loved God to be his brothers and sisters.) These parts of the book are separated by insertions of Noah’s thoughts and feelings on the flood and the things that caused it. Tomorrow I will post more of my updates on the Book of Enoch.

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