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The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church preserves full Geʽez texts of 1 Enoch and Jubilees and treats them as canonical—unlike most Western traditions where they are classed as pseudepigrapha or apocry...
The full corpora of 1 Enoch and Jubilees survive in medieval Ethiopic (Geʽez) manuscripts, whereas the Dead Sea Scrolls preserved earlier fragments in Aramaic (1 Enoch) and Hebrew (Jubilees), permitti...
The Ethiopian recension of 1 Enoch preserves the only complete surviving text of the work, retained in Geʽez and incorporated into the Ethiopian Orthodox canon, while Greek and Slavonic recensions sur...
Two clear patterns emerge from the materials provided: , and multiple high-profile candidates were later judged unsuitable after inspection. The Temple Institute’s reported candidate discoveries in 19...
Scholars broadly agree that the Parables (1 Enoch 37–71) are a later, composite layer within the 1 Enoch corpus, likely crystallizing in the late first century BCE to early first century CE, and that ...
The manuscript record for 1 Enoch and Jubilees is both robust and regionally diverse: substantial Aramaic fragments of 1 Enoch and multiple copies of Jubilees were recovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls...
1 Enoch (often called the Book of Enoch) and the Book of Jubilees were formative strands in the religious imagination of Second Temple Judaism and left clear fingerprints on early Christian theology—e...
Most surviving Jewish writings composed during the Second Temple era do not speak directly about Jesus by name; instead the period’s literature and later Jewish responses provide the context in which ...