ENOCH, BOOKS OF

There are two works with this name; the more important is the Ethiopic Book of Enoch; it is quoted in Jude 51, etc., and may be the source of Matthew 192. Its influence on early Christian and late Jewish lit. was considerable. It gradually was for- ‘gotten, and lost till the Ethiopic version was discovered in 1773. Its original language was either Hebrew or Aramaic, but which is uncertain. It is certainly composite, and the division of it by R. Hi. Charles probably as near the mark as any. Chapters 72-82 he ns to before 130 B.C., 83-90 before 161 B.O., 91-104 to 134-95 B.C., 1-36, a very composite part, earlier than 166 B.C., 37-71 (where-| in occurs a remarkable pa age in which the Me iah is pre-existent Son of Man) before 64 B.O. The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (written partly in G.k, O ibly some in Hebrew) exists only in Slavonic trans., written by a Hellenistic Jew in Egypt, 30 B.C. to 70 A.D.