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  2. Book of Enoch - Wikipedia

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    Based on 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. [7]

  3. Enoch - Wikipedia

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    Enoch (/ ˈ iː n ə k / ⓘ) [note 1] is a biblical figure and patriarch prior to Noah's flood, and the son of Jared and father of Methuselah. He was of the Antediluvian period in the Hebrew Bible. The text of the Book of Genesis says Enoch lived 365 years before he was taken by God.

  4. Quotations from the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament

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    New Testament authors also quote from other sources. The synoptic gospels have Jesus quoting from or alluding to deutero-canonical works several times, such as the Wisdom of the Son of Sirach. Paul makes three quotations from classical poets. The Epistle of Jude quotes the pseudepigraphal Book of Enoch (1 Enoch 1:9) and the Assumption of Moses.

  5. Names of God in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    Elah (Hebrew: אֱלָה, romanized: ʾelāh, pl. Elim or Elohim; Imperial Aramaic: אלהא) is the Aramaic word for God and the absolute singular form of אלהא, ʾilāhā. The origin of the word is from Proto-Semitic * ʔil and is thus cognate to the Hebrew , Arabic , Akkadian , and other Semitic languages ' words for god.

  6. List of Old Testament pseudepigrapha - Wikipedia

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    3 (Hebrew Apocalypse of) Enoch (Jewish, in present form from c. 108 AD-135 AD) Sibylline Oracles (both Jewish and Christian, c. 2nd cent. BC–7th cent. AD) Treatise of Shem (c. near end of first cent. BC) [3] Apocryphon of Ezekiel (mostly lost, original form c. late 1st cent. BC) Apocalypse of Zephaniah (mostly lost, original form c. late 1st ...

  7. 3 Enoch - Wikipedia

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    The Third Book of Enoch (Hebrew: ספר חנוך לר׳ ישמעאל כ׳׳ג‬), also known as The Book of the Palaces, The Book of Rabbi Ishmael the High Priest and The Elevation of Metatron, and abbreviated as 3 Enoch) [1] is a Jewish apocryphal book.

  8. Reception of the Book of Enoch in premodernity - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Enoch (also known as 1 Enoch), is an ancient Jewish religious work, ascribed by tradition and internal attestation to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. [1] [2] 1 Enoch holds material unique to it, such as the origins of supernatural demons and giants, why some angels fell from heaven, details explaining why the Great Flood was morally necessary, and an introduction of the ...

  9. List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    The largest organized collection of Hebrew Old Testament manuscripts in the world is housed in the Russian National Library ("Second Firkovitch Collection") in Saint Petersburg. [4] The Leningrad/Petrograd Codex is the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew. The Leningrad/Petrograd codex is the manuscript upon which the Old ...