What is the history of the Second Book of Enoch and other Books of Enoch?

[lostindc]

I am not really concerned about the First Book of Enoch, but I would like to know when the other Books of Enoch were discovered and when they were translated.

Consig. has got me hooked on Enoch....

[Mudcat]

Here is good link from the University of St. Andrews.

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/rt/ot...tracts/2enoch1/

You'll find info on 3 Enoch in the left tab column as well as some other goodies.

I only gave it a skim, but think I will have to read there thoughts more fully later.

[lostindc]

Here is good link from the University of St. Andrews.

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/rt/ot...tracts/2enoch1/

You'll find info on 3 Enoch in the left tab column as well as some other goodies.

I only gave it a skim, but think I will have to read there thoughts more fully later.

Good find, thanks

[Nevo]

I am not really concerned about the First Book of Enoch, but I would like to know when the other Books of Enoch were discovered and when they were translated.

Consig. has got me hooked on Enoch....

You can find all this information on Wikipedia. But here is some additional information regarding dates.

"The origins of 2 Enoch are unknown. Research has not reached any consensus about the time, place, or contents of its first published form. The options range from Charlesâ?? theory that the longer recension was written by an Alexandria Jew in the 1st century BC through belief that it was a Christian rewrite of 1 Enoch, probably in Gk, made anywhere from the 2d century AD (in Syria?) to the 10th (in Byzantium), up to the denial that it is anything more than a home-grown product of Slavic religious culture. The numerous Gk elements, such as the names of the planets or the anagram for Adamâ??s name (chap. 30), could betray the source language; but such features could attest no more than the general dependence of Slavic letters on Gk influence. The same can be said about the Semitisms that have been detected in this (Pines 1970) and similar works with a biblical flavor (Rubinstein 1953)."

-- Francis I. Anderson, "Enoch, Second Book of,"

Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary

, 2:520-21.

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[e=mc2]

Another very, very, VERY excellent place to find Enoch materials, and a host of other gems andgoodies is Andrei Orlov's pages found here:

http://www.marquette.edu/maqom/