Old Testament Apocrypha

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 68. Chapters: Book of Enoch, Biblical apocrypha, Life of Adam and Eve, Testament of Abraham, Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, Letter of Jeremiah, Sirach, Jubilees, Second Book of Enoch, Apocalypse of Abraham, Apocalyptic literature, Book of Wisdom, Sibylline oracles, 2 Baruch, Lives of the Prophets, Testament of Solomon, Letter of Aristeas, Assumption of Moses, 1 Esdras, Prayer of Joseph, Apocalypse of Zephaniah, Ascension of Isaiah, Apocalypse of Zerubbabel, Psalm 151, Ladder of Jacob, Angelic tongues, Testament of Job, 4 Maccabees, 3 Maccabees, 4 Baruch, Joseph and Aseneth, Book of Noah, Pseudo-Philo, Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, Psalms of Solomon, 3 Enoch, 3 Baruch, Apocalypse of Elijah, Prayer of Manasseh, Meqabyan, Ogias the Giant, Pseudo-Phocylides, List of Old Testament pseudepigrapha, 5 Maccabees, Psalms 152-155, Book of the Penitence of Adam, Books of Adam, Apocalypse of Adam, Questions of Ezra, Greek Apocalypse of Ezra, Greek Apocalypse of Daniel, Book of Odes, Legend of the Rood, Vision of Ezra, Apocalypse of Sedrach, Rest of the Words of Baruch, Testament of Isaac, Ocidelus, Testament of Adam, The Sword of Moses, Testament of Jacob, History of the Rechabites, Apocryphon of Ezekiel, Penitence of Jamnes and Mambres. Excerpt: The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch) is an ancient Jewish religious work, traditionally ascribed to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. It is not part of the biblical canon as used by Jews, apart from Beta Israel. It is regarded as canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Eritrean Orthodox Church, but no other Christian group. Western scholars believe that its older sections (mainly in the Book of the Watchers) date from about 300 BC, and the latest part (Book of Parables) probably was composed at the end of the 1st century BC. It is wholly extant only in the Ge'ez language, with Aramaic fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls and a few Greek and Latin fragments. There is no consensus among scholars about the original language: some propose Aramaic, others Hebrew, while the probable thesis, according to E. Isaac, is that 1 Enoch, like Daniel, was composed partially in Aramaic and partially in Hebrew. Ethiopian scholars generally hold that Ge'ez is the language of the original from which the Greek and Aramaic copies were made, pointing out that it is the only language in which the complete text has yet been found. A short section of 1 Enoch (1 En 1:9) is quoted in the New Testament (Letter of Jude 1:14-15), and is there attributed to "Enoch the Seventh from Adam" (1 En 60:8). It is argued that all the writers of the New Testament were familiar with it and were influenced by it in thought and diction. The first part of the Book of Enoch describes the fall of the Watchers, the angels who fathered the Nephilim. The remainder of the book describes Enoch's visits to heaven in the form of travels, visions and dreams, and his revelations. The book consists of five quite distinct major sections (see each section for details): Among most scholars is the shared view that these five sections were originally independent works (with different dates of composition), themselves a product of much editorial arrangement, and were only later redacted into what we now call 1 Enoch. This