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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 is the subject of many Jewish and Christian traditions. He was considered the author of the Book of Enoch [2] and also called the scribe of judgment. [3] In the New Testament, Enoch is referenced in the Gospel of Luke, the Epistle to the Hebrews, and in the Epistle of Jude, the last of which also quotes from it. [4]

  4. 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 ...

  5. Messiah in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, [note 2] 3rd-1st c. BCE) is a Second Temple Jewish apocalyptic religious work, ascribed by tradition to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. [33] [34] Enoch contains a prophetic exposition of the thousand-year reign of the Messiah. The older sections (mainly in the Book of the Watchers) of the text are estimated to ...

  6. New Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    First Enoch was written in the wake of this calamity between 166 BCE–163 BCE. For the author of 1 Enoch, history is a steep descent into evil from the utopia in Eden. The author's vision of the eschaton centers on the restoration of Jerusalem: "I saw until the owner of the sheep brought a house, new and larger and loftier than the former" (1 ...

  7. Genealogy of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    Against King Jehoiakim, Jeremiah prophesied, "He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David," [96] and against his son King Jeconiah, "Write this man childless, a man who will not prosper in his days; for no man of his seed will prosper, sitting on the throne of David or ruling again in Judah."

  8. Bible prophecy - Wikipedia

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    Malachi prophesied that God would send Elijah before "the great and dreadful day of the LORD" in which the world will be consumed by fire. ( Malachi 3:1, 4:1, 5) (In Mark 9:13 and Matthew 17:11–13, Jesus states that John the Baptist fulfilled the prophecy as the spiritual successor to Elijah.)

  9. Apocalypse of Elijah - Wikipedia

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    The virgin, Elijah, and Enoch shame the son of lawlessness Tabitha, the virgin, scolds the son of lawlessness up to Jerusalem, is killed by him only to rise again and become a source of healing blood to the people (4:1-6) Elijah and Enoch appear to fight and argue with the son of lawlessness (4:7-12)