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The Book of Enos (/ ˈ iː n ə s /) is the fourth book in the Book of Mormon and is a portion of the small plates of Nephi. [1] According to the text it was written by Enos , a Nephite prophet. Most scholars believe it to be a 19th century work by Joseph Smith .
Enos (/ ˈ iː n ə s /; [1] Hebrew: אֱנוֹשׁ) is a figure in the Book of Mormon who is a son or grandson [2] of Jacob, a Nephite prophet and author of the Book of Enos. According to the Book of Mormon, Enos lived sometime in the 6th century BC.
Enos was the grandson of Adam and Eve (Genesis 5:6–11; Luke 3:38). According to Seder Olam Rabbah, based on Jewish reckoning, he was born in AM 235. According to the Septuagint, it was in AM 435. Enos was the father of Kenan, who was born when Enos was 90 years old [5] (or 190 years, according to the Septuagint).
The Book of Mormon describes a number of individuals unique to its narrative as prophets.Here, the prophets included are those who, according to the narrative, inherited the plates of Nephi and who otherwise are called prophets within the text.
The Book of Giants is a Jewish pseudepigraphal work from the third century BC and resembles the Book of Enoch. Fragments from at least six and as many as eleven copies were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls collections.
Judging by the number of copies found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Book of Enoch was widely read during the Second Temple period.Today, the Ethiopic Beta Israel community of Haymanot Jews is the only Jewish group that accepts the Book of Enoch as canonical and still preserves it in its liturgical language of Geʽez, where it plays a central role in worship. [6]
The Book of Jarom is the shortest book in the Book of Mormon text, excepting the explanatory Words of Mormon. [9] Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Hemming, co-authors of the three-volume series The Book of Mormon for the Least of These , suggest that Jarom's choice of audience (the Lamanites) is based on his father Enos's covenant with God, in which ...
The deuterocanonical Book of Tobit (written c. 225–175 BC) does not name any of the wives aboard Noah's Ark, but states that Noah's wife was one of his "own kindred" . 1 Peter 3:20 (written in the late 1st century AD) states that there were eight people on the Ark.