Book Description
Did rebel angels take on human bodies to fulfill their lust for the "daughters of men"? Did these fallen angels teach men to build weapons of war?
That is the premise of the Book of Enoch, a text cherished by the Essenes, early Jews and Christians but later condemned by both rabbis and Church Fathers. The book was denounced, banned and "lost" for over a thousand years-until in 1773, a Scottish explorer discovered three copies in Ethiopia.
Elizabeth Clare Prophet examines the controversy surrounding this book and sheds new light on Enoch's forbidden mysteries. She demonstrates that Jesus and the apostles studied the Book of Enoch and tells why Church Fathers suppressed its teaching that angels could incarnate in human bodies. Contains all the Enoch texts, including the Book of Enoch, and biblical parallels.
Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil takes you back to the primordial drama of Good and Evil, when the first hint of corruption entered a pristine world-earth.
Contains Richard Laurence's translation of the Book of Enoch, all the other Enoch texts, including the Book of the Secrets of Enoch, biblical parallels
Customer Reviews:
Cant stress enough.......2007-10-03
Please don't take anything this woman says seriously. Just for fun is what I would call it. No not even that, Dangerous stupidity and conjecture for anyone who is uneducated I have read some of her stuff in the past and was in disbelief to hear her say that Jesus, God himself came to earth to learn from certain mystical religious groups in India and other places Give me a break. There are only three things God cant do, Lie. Die and Learn.
Here again, more of the same BS.
Quite interesting.......2007-08-21
Filled with interesting materials and ideas, however the author's writing style puts me right to sleep. A great writer can turn even the act of watching paint dry on the wall into a remarkable journey. Those authors that wrote Holy Blood Holy Grail should've written this book instead.
Great reference book.......2007-08-18
This book is a great reference book. If you have read the book of Enoch and any other fallen angels books, there are many crossovers, and some indifferences, overall though, this is the book that's easily readable.
This book covers many other books, so you can single handily buy one book and read 2-3.....
Definitely worth putting into your collection
Hard to Read, Author is bias .......2007-07-09
I bought this book because I thought it would help me with an understanding of the Book of Enoch. I am so disappointed that I wasted my money on this book. It is hard to read and the Author has way too much bias in her own "new age" ideas.
Fallen Angels & the orgins of evil.......2007-03-09
I could learn all ahe had to say by just re-visiting the Bible. Nothing new or thought prevoking in this book
Book Description
This book forecasts the second advent of the Messiah. The most ancient of prophets - Enoch saw the Illuminating wonders of the greatness of God's creation. Enoch uttered his prophecies regarding the elect, centuries before the existence of Christianity.
Customer Reviews:
Review of Enoch the Prophet.......2007-10-01
Excellent resource. It was neat to learn the names of many angels and their duties who were not mentioned in the holy bible text except for Michael and Gabriel. The sections on the creation of the race of giants and the birth of Noah were enlightening. Excellent source of knowlege about a great man of God, Enoch, who is also a mystery to most bible readers.
Too difficult to understand.......2007-06-15
I found that this book was very intellectual and probably meant to be for the more advanced student. If you are a student of theology/christanity- and looking for more depth, this book would be for you.
A Powerful Book.......2007-05-23
It took me a while to read this book because it is very scary but none the less a 3demenional look into the Bible and the future. If you are Christian you should know about Enoch frankly because he's not dead! That should be a big clue....Very good scripture and shouldn't have been left out of the Bible.
Pretty good read.......2007-04-12
Enoch is mentioned in the Christian bible. Supposedly, The Book of Enoch the Prophet is a FULL text of a pre-Christ era book about the prophecy of Enoch, a righteous man in God's eyes. This book was left out of the original bible (canon) (were church leaders aware of it back then? I do not know.). It seems the only fully intact version of this book was written in Ethiopian. Only fragments of the original Hebrew (or Greek??) text have been found. Decide for yourself if the text seems inspired or consistent with other Christian texts. As for me, I did notice many similarities with this book and some texts in the bible. However, The Book of Enoch the Prophet expounds on many of the themes touched on in the bible such as the idea of giants on the earth as mentioned in Genesis. There is also much info related about a group of angels who defied God and came to earth to mate with women. I cannot speak to the authenticity of this book. However, it was a very interesting read. I recommend it for any Christian or biblical scholar. Why 3 stars out of 5? I'm a hard grader. The book was fine, I just don't give out many 4's or 5's unless the book is really exceptional.
The opposite of the Kabballah.......2007-02-22
This book explains many mysteries of the world as it is. There are five books contained in the Book of Enoch: the first dealing with the fallen angels before the time of Noah, and their plan to corrupt mankind including their plan to cohabitat with human females. This book goes into great detail of the plans, and, also, of the responses coming from the Kingdom of God. Book two deals with the angelic order of both the fallen angels, and the angels of God; and with the punishment for the angels that sinned. Book three deals with the order of the universe. Book four with an allegory of the history of Abrahams descendents. And book five deals with some prophecies in Noah's time. As an aside, parts of the Book of Enoch were found in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Book Description
Enoch, the Ethiopian, Patriarch and Prophet, Greater than Abraham, Holier than Moses, is the first perfect human being in the bible and the first immortal man according to Moses the lawgiver. (Gen.5:18,22,24) And yet he has been kept a secret until the printing of this revealing book
Customer Reviews:
What an Utter Time Thief!.......2007-07-30
I bought this book to read a Black centered, Ethiopian perspective on the prophet Enoch. What a complete waste of resources! I thought I could take the warned against repetition, however, I was fed up on page 15 already - with 285 more to follow!
In principle I appreciate any unorthodox/eccentric writing style. However, sick more than 90% of the written words being comprised of quotes of other books etc. is something I do not want to experience Iver again. In fact, the number of pages of his own words would stay clearly in the single digits, if it weren't for the brief conclusion of the book. The author quotes anyone, no matter how often almost literally the very same thing. Quoting, what Enoch is, without the respective reasons. Occasionally, I begged for an explanation: "Enoch is the inventor of urban civilization." How would that be possible, in the supposed 7th generation of humankind? Would that even be a good thing, to invent the big shitty?! Some subchapters are extremely short: "Enoch the Great Authority [headline] In Levitical literature and traditions Enoch is regarded as a great authority." Followed by the source. That was it. Just to give an expression of the exquisiteness of the information. A similar subchapter is headed "Enoch the Creator's Favorite". Four pages later another "Enoch the Favorite of God". Writing exclusively in quotes unsurprisingly lead to various contradictions. Without commenting those. It also lead to omissions.
I hoped to learn something about Enoch. I definitely did not. A third of the book is entirely off the point, i.e. NOT about Enoch. But instead about the Egyptians (!) having been Black and general racism. I do agree (largely) with the author on this (though nothing is new to those who have read other African centered books on Egypt). This doesn't change the fact that there's nothing substantial about Enoch in this book instead, not even in addition.
Quelle surprise, there's racism in the world. It is largely described in such a general way, utterly unrelated to Enoch that I am still wondering, what exactly the concept of the book might have been. Though it was ok to read some examples of famous people saying something racist, just to put them on the history index. Personally I prefer not to repeat that many insults, as that qualifies as further insulting - oneself, involuntarily. As I share the sentiments in general of the author on this, I still add one star to the lowest category possible for this book. I may have added another, but even in this regard the book is flawed. To begin with, there aren't any races.
A major point of discontent I have with this book, is that the author writes things which are true, but discredits them with flawed proofs. He's saying, if one Biblical character is Black skinned, then ALL before and after in the geneology must have been also. Likely, but not necessarily. Because the Sinai is located in Egypt, and because Egypt is located in Africa, the ancient Egyptians must have been Black. Yes, they were Black, but the causal relationship escapes me. Anyway, I may add ancient Blacks once lived in eastern Asia, Scotland, Scandinavia, India, Tasmania, etc. Also the Sumerians were Black, yes. But not because they CAME from Africa, but because the area was well within the ancient Black populated world. The pre-Hebrew people descending from Abraham are described as numbering 70 when migrating into Egypt, but numbering some (3,)600,000 at the Imes of the exodus a relatively short Imes later. The author suggests that they must have mixed with Blacks and therefore HAD BECOME Black. In reality, Abraham had been Black from the beginning, as is contradictingly mentioned elsewhere. Besides, it is an urban legend that he came from Ur. (Read The Africans Who Wrote the Bible.) The names and artificial borders of continents say nothing about the skin color of the respective inhabitants at different Imes. Moses (who is not seen as Akenten/Akhenaton in this book) was black skinned, yes. But this is not provable with the magic trick in the Bible, displaying a white hand for a moment as a supposed contrast to his general phenotype color. For one thing, he was explicitly NOT the Israelites' "first great miracle worker". Simply for the reason that he taught AGAINST magic. Later scribes of the Bible misunderstood the earlier texts and misinterpreted and mistranslated various text passages into a lot of magic tricks never done. In addition, the white hand is not referring to any phenotype whiteness, but sickness whiteness, as is still overstandable from the quote provided. It is referring to leprosy. Someone "White" could have done the same "white hand magic", as "Whites" are in reality pink or beige. More about Moses read in Moses and Akhenaten: The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus. Enoch might have been an Ethiopian (as in today's country). He was Black for sure. However not, because the Ethiopian Church still includes it in its canon. The other early churches did that as well. Ethiopia became isolated from the rest of Christianity and didn't follow subsequent doctrine changes. There are other Ethiopian apocryphs, not about Ethiopians and other Bible texts in European Bibles not referring to Europeans. The book follows the belief that every people (= phenotype) has to venerate Mary and Jesus/I-Yasus in the skin color of their own. I concur that fakings, done in order to downpress, should not be followed. However, the book's suggestion is racist in the manner that non-Black (APPEARING) people supposedly aren't INHERENTLY able to identify with a Black Jesus and that indeed different skin colors equal different peoples/races. Last not least Adam was most likely Black, yes. (That I would have to say that as a RastafarI...) No matter, how much the concept of Adam is White. Yet at the Imes of Adam, as described by the Bible and this book, humans already featured all the other phenotypes. Simply, because Adam wasn't really the first human, as can be seen in his story of further procreation. He was the first patriarch under a certain concept of humanity. So the "proof" is flawed that as the first human he must have been black skinned, even though he was. Ancient Egypt is still described as too young. Read When We Ruled: The Ancient and Medieval History of Black Civilisations.
This book doesn't only quote The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors, but actually recommends it, as the author Dr. Cress Welsing supposedly does a "brilliant analysis" of racism. In reality, that book is hiding grave racism (against Blacks) behind a thin veil of reversed racism. Curiously, a few pages later, historic The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave is quoted extensively. Perfectly describing what The Isis Papers has continued EXACTLY in a modern version. In that sense, Willie Lynch was perfectly right that with his methods Blacks in America can be controlled for at least 300 years - obviously even when they are freed and perfectly aware of them.
As for the Enoch part of this book: The author takes everything literally - and by that misses the point. The mysticism of it. For example that Enoch ascended into Heaven with his body. This isn't even literally said in the story. (In fact, there are even contradictory quotes that his body was transformed into "flames".) It is just said that he didn't die. That is a tremendous difference. Other literal interpretations include people living anywhere from 365 years to capping a millennium and that God looks like a (hu)man.
There are some hostile references towards sexuality and the Greek are getting criticized for not inventing any doctrines which couldn't get enforced accordingly. For once, the Greeks have done something right, and then that's bad...
As for the sloppy presentation of the book: The contents table is completely wrong, suggesting some 50 more pages not existing due to an altered lay-out, there are two chapter X, and many other flaws of this sort, suggesting a lacking proof-reader.
The actual text of Enoch is not included. Please read the Ethiopian version: The Lost Book of Enoch: Comprehensive Transliteration of the Forgotten Book of the Bible.
Enoch the Ethiopian.......2007-01-12
I have paid for this item two or three months ago and I have not received it yet to evaluate. You told me I would receive it in January.
I'm not sure if I want to continue shopping with you.
Rebecca Russell
Astonishing information about origin of Christianity.......2007-01-04
It is a lot references in the first part of the book.This can make some to believe this is a boring book, but it's not. In fact,it is necessary to give the astonishing information later in the book credibility.
This book gives the reader a new and interesting perspective of the origin and background of Christianity. It is also interesting to observe it is in accordance with later research regarding where modern man descended from, based on DNA (Y-chromosome).
Not Well Written.......2006-08-22
I found this book to be very repetitious and containing quite a few grammatical errors. This detracted from what could have been a wonderful story.
Propoganda, not history........2006-03-03
I purchased this book hoping to expand on what I already know about Enoch, a biblical character I both admire and am intrigued by. Instead I found it to be extremely repetitive and propogandistic. The author was more concerned with making racial claims than with providing an interesting and fulfilling portrait of a great profit. Unless you are the type who is obsessed with the color of biblical characters I do not recommend this book.
Average customer rating:
- Finally, the Truth!!! Call for All Christians to Put Down Your Bibles and Read the "Book of Enoch, the Prophet"!!!!!
- The scritpure that Satan and his church didnt want you to see.
- Not a magical test at all
- ONLY FOR THE INITIATED
- Revival of fallen angel legends from c.200 BC
|
Book of Enoch the Prophet
R. A. Gilbert
Manufacturer: Weiser Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 General
| New Age
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
Controversial Knowledge
| Religious Studies
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Occult
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
Magic
| Occult
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
Occultism
| Occult
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
Unexplained Mysteries
| Occult
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
Alchemy
| Occult
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Spirituality
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
Apocrypha
| Bible & Other Sacred Texts
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
Look Inside Religion & Spirituality Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
Similar Items:
-
Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil: Why Church Fathers Suppressed the Book of Enoch and Its Startling Revelations
-
The Lost Books of the Bible
-
The Book of the Secrets of Enoch
-
The Book of Jasher
-
The Book Of Jubilees Or The Little Genesis
ASIN: 1578632595 |
Customer Reviews:
Finally, the Truth!!! Call for All Christians to Put Down Your Bibles and Read the "Book of Enoch, the Prophet"!!!!!.......2006-03-18
The detail in this book is so descriptive and accurate that there is no way that anyone could declare it to be false. As a matter of fact this is where readers of the Holy Bible should question how or rather "who" compiled the chapters that would makeup the (1) Old Testament and (2) New Testament? At the time that these books were comprised, there was much turmoil in the catholic church and scripture as we know of it today was not available to the common man. The world is grateful for their sacrifices of course in providing that which they could but it was incomplete!
Example #1: The Story of Lot
In the various bible translations of Lot's exodus from Sodom it is written in the final phase that once he and his daughters arrived safely to a cave and there Lots' daughters conspired, drunken their father with wine and "lay with him." Did you get that? Surely, this could not be true and in the Book of Enoch the truth is finally told. For it states that "Lot (not the daughters as written in the KJV, NKJV, NIV and many others) committed a sin like unto that of Sodom and layed with his daughters. THEREFORE, LOT'S NAME AND HIS SEED WAS REMOVED FROM THE HEAVENLY TABLETS!!!"
Nevertheless, "Enoch walked with GOD, left a written testament that states that it was for all throughout the generations until the judgement."
LISTEN UP EVERYONE: WICCAN, MYSTICS AND GNOSTICS READ THIS BOOK BUT NOT CHRISTIANS AND BELIEVERS IN THE ONE GOD???
Was Enoch any of these??? Of course not!!!
As a matter of fact in many bible translations, Enoch is spelt "Henoch" in the Douay-Rheims bible version.
Every person on the planet should read this book. Keep a copy in your home and a spare copy for your office...:-).
Final word and food for thought for those familiar with Biblical Numerology:
If you add together the numbers in the ISBN it equals 51.
Suggested readings: Chapters 51 of the Book of Isaiah, Ecclesiasticus and Jeremiah.
Be amazed and be blessed!
Peace unto you all and purchase your copy today if you don't already have one!!!
The scritpure that Satan and his church didnt want you to see........2006-01-05
According to the biblical narrative (Genesis 5:21-24), Enoch lived 365 years, far less than the other patriarchs in the period before the Flood. Enoch allegedly walked with God who turned him into the archangel Metatron.
He called the people back to his forefathers' religion, but only a few listened to him, while the majority turned away. According to the Talmud Selections when the people went astray, Enoch who lived a pious life in seclusion was given prophethood. He came among the people and by his sermons and speeches made the people give up the idolatory and obey the Command of God. Enoch ruled them and during his reign there was peace and justice.
Prophet Enoch and his followers left Babylon for Egypt. There he carried on his mission, calling people to what is just and fair, teaching them certain prayers and instructing them to fast on certain days and to give a portion of their wealth to the poor.
Enoch was the first to invent books and writing, much like Thoth the scribe.
The ancient Greeks declare that Enoch is the same as Mercury / Hermes Trismegistus writing the Emerald Tablets of Thoth.
Enoch taught the sons of men the art of building cities, and enacted some admirable laws. He discovered the knowledge of the Zodiac, and the course of the Planets; and he pointed out to the sons of men, that they should worship God, that they should fast, that they should pray, that they should give alms, votive offerings, and tenths. He reprobated abominable foods and drunkenness, and appointed festivals for sacrifices to the Sun, at each of the Zodiacal Signs.
Enoch's name signified in the Hebrew, Initiate or Initiator. The legend of the columns, of granite and brass or bronze, erected by him, is probably symbolical. That of bronze, which survived the flood, is supposed to symbolize the mysteries, of which Masonry is the legitimate successor from the earliest times the custodian and depository of the great philosophical and religious truths, unknown to the world at large, and handed down from age to age by an unbroken current of tradition, embodied in symbols, emblems, and allegories.
There was a substantial Zoroastrian Influence on Judaism when Jewish exiles were exposed to the Persian religion during the Babylonian captivity. Some Jews adopted Enochian tradition in Babylon during the Exile and brought it back to Canaan when Cyrus gave them leave to Return. The Enochian Jews were detested by the priesthood in Jerusalem, and they were forced to flee into the desert before 300 BCE. Naturally, they supported the Maccabees during the uprising of 165 BCE. The Enochians at Qumran 'updated' the text to include Judah the Hammer in the big story.
The last of the Essene stragglers buried the secret book in Cave IV at Qumran c.70 CE. The urban Christians and Jews of the Near East rejected it. The authors of the Apocalypse rewrote and retitled it, but they didn't understand the heptadic structure of the original lines, the arrangement of sevens. Only the students of the Merkabah in Babylonia possessed the key to the Enochian mystery.
The Book of Enoch is a pseudo-epigraphal work that claims to be written by a biblical character. It was not included in either the Hebrew or most Christian biblical canons, but could have been considered a sacred text by the sectarians. The original Aramaic version was lost until several Dead Sea Scroll fragments were discovered in Qumran Cave 4 - providing parts of the Aramaic original.
The Book of Enoch was first discovered in Abyssinia in the year 1773 by a Scottish explorer named James Bruce. In 1821 The Book of Enoch was translated by Richard Laurence and published in a number of successive editions, culminating in the 1883 edition.
Enoch acts as a scribe, writing up a petition on behalf of the fallen angels, or fallen ones, to be given to a higher power for ultimate judgment.
Christianity adopted some ideas from Enoch, including the Final Judgment, the concept of demons, the origins of evil and the fallen angels, and the coming of a Messiah and ultimately, a Messianic kingdom.
The Book of Enoch was removed from the Bible and banned by the early church. Copies of it were found to have survived in Ethiopia, and fragments in Greece and Italy.
Enoch is the supposed author of 366 books, collectively termed Enochian literature. The most famous writings bearing his name are the First, Second, and Third Books of Enoch, ranked among the large body of literature termed apocryphal and pseudepigraphical, meaning that they are noncanonical (not accepted into the body of recognized books of the Bible) and are-in the case of the pseudepigrapha-attributed to some person of note and written in the style of genuine biblical books. Most interesting of all the legends is the one in which Enoch was transported to heaven and there transformed into the angel Metatron. Once there, he was, with the divine flourish, made into Metatron, the angel of the face, high priest of the heavenly temple, and one of the supreme angels in all of the celestial hierarchy-not to mention the tallest of angels, with 36 wings and 265,000 eyes.
The three so-called pseudepigraphical works were allegedly written by or under the influence of the antediluvian patriarch Enoch, who was taken up to heaven by the Lord, an event described in the Book of Genesis (5:24); pseudepigraphical writings are those that are noncanonical (meaning not accepted into the body of biblical books) and were composed in a style intending to resemble or appear as authentic biblical literature, often assuming the title of some personage known to the audience. In the case of the Books of Enoch, the actual writers or compilers chose a figure who was the source of many legends and tales, the most notable being his transformation by God into the truly powerful angel Metatron. While decidedly uncanonical, the three books remain fascinating and colorful reading, as well as treasures of detail and fanciful images concerning angels.
1 ENOCH-Known also as the Ethiopic Book of Enoch from the fact that the only surviving complete manuscript of it is in Ethiopic , this is the oldest of the three Enoch books, dating to the mid-second century B.C., although it actually comprises various sections, each dated differently: "The Book of Noah"; "Similitudes"; "The Dream Visions"; "Apocalypse of the Weeks"; and "The Book of the Heavenly Luminaries." Aside from material on Gehenna and heaven and the nature of evil, the text is full of stories and accounts of angels. The writer covers the fall of angels, the names of the archangels, and the fire of the luminaries of heaven. The reader thus encounters such angelic personages as Raguel, Uriel, Gabriel, Raphael, Michael, and Saraqael.
2 ENOCH-Known also as the Slavonic Book of Enoch because the only extant version is a Slavonic translation of the Greek original text, this specific edition dates to the seventh century A. D., although it is based on a much older Jewish text of the first century. A.D. While similar in some ways to the first book of Enoch and perhaps using it as a source, the Slavonic Enoch details Enoch's journey through the seven heavens, the life of Enoch's successors, especially Methuselah, and then gives a forecast of the Great Flood that encompassed the world in later generations. There are descriptions of angels residing in the heavens.
3 ENOCH-Also called the Hebrew Apocalypse of Enoch, this is a Jewish writing dating probably to the second century A.D. It was allegedly written by the noted Rabbi Ishmael, a brilliant scholar of Palestine during the early second century A.D. He reputes to recount his journey to heaven, where he beheld the very throne of God, along with the hosts of angels. His information was granted to him by the archangel Metatron, the onetime patriarch Enoch. This work remains perhaps the single greatest compendium of angelic lore, including a comprehensive assemblage of angels, archangels, and holy creatures, such as the watchers and holy ones.
Not a magical test at all .......2005-08-23
Many people seem to beleive this is a magical text, indeed the fullest explination of this work's application to magic is found in the Greek and Hebrew versions, and is only partly found in the COMPLETE translation, of which this is only one part.
Even then, there is very little of use here for either the serious magician or the studnet of Christianity. For the casual reader, this text may have some slight appeal, which gives it one star. Two stars go toward its being republished at all. The original version of the text is available in Hebrew reprints and in used book stores, as well as in many modified versions by authors who have an axe of some kind to grind. If it is a text for initiates, I would urge these initiates to learn Greek and Hebrew and read the originals, which are still available - some of them in rather inexpensive editions.
ONLY FOR THE INITIATED.......2004-10-23
This is the penultimate apocryphal text, but it is important to keep in mind that the word "apocrypha" simply means cryptic--- intended only for the initiated. All esoteric philosophy & much of mythology alludes to these "fallen angels" as having passed down their wisdom to mankind. Many myths declare them to be our progenitors. They are alluded to in Genesis 6, but only just. Here is much more of the story... an extra-biblical text equal in intensity to Revelation.
Revival of fallen angel legends from c.200 BC.......2003-08-29
For those that are familiar with the Enoch literature this is a reprint of R.H. Charles shorter SPCK translation, not a facsimile of the full 1912 edition with all Charles' essays and notes. The extra pages are occupied with an introduction by R.A. Gilbert who has prefaced another half dozen similar genre reprints from the same publisher. That means this is 1 Enoch (Aramaic-Coptic Enoch), not 2 Enoch (Slavonic Enoch) or 3 Enoch (Hebrew Enoch). The 3 books, together with 'Jubilees' represent 4 very different versions of fallen angel myths. R.H. Charles' translations were ground-breaking at the time but for anyone with a serious interest in Jewish literature it is now no substitute for the scholarly translations of all 4 texts, among others, found in 'The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments (Old Testament Pseudepigraphia Vol 1) by James H. Charlesworth. Supplemented perhaps by Enochic material in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Vermes or Martinez editions).
For those that are not familiar with the Book of Enoch what we have here is a legend originating as a midrash on Genesis 6 (concerning the "sons of God and the daughters of men") in the time of the Maccabees. Although a lot of the midrashic material in the book is taken from elsewhere than Genesis. Such as the famous (or infamous) Jude 14 quote of from 1 Enoch 1:9, where Jude's quote is in turn a midrash based on Deuteronomy 33:2, i.e. words spoken by Moses and not the Biblical Enoch of whom no words are recorded. An account of the origin and growth of the Enoch myth in Second Temple period Judaism [aka "the Intertestamental Period"] is found in 'Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah: An Historical and Literary Introduction' by George W. E., Nickelsburg.
The myth's reception in both Judaism and early Christianity was mixed. The Pharisee author of Liber Antiquarum known as Pseudo-Philo, and several pre-Mishnah and pre-Talmud rabbis rejected the interpretation of Genesis 6 'sons of God' as being about the fall of angels and they were followed in this by Jesus of Nazareth who said that "angels do not marry" and equated "the sons of God" with "sons of the resurrection". But equally Josephus, also a Pharisee, and Philo seem to have accepted the basic premise of the Enoch story. The book's popularity is illustrated by the various copies found at Qumran.
Both Peter and Jude quote from 1 Enoch more than is commonly realised. Peter's description of "chains of darkness" is drawn on the angel Uriel imprisoning the 200 fallen angels in Tartarus. Likewise Jude's "Enoch the seventh from Adam" is itself a quote from 1 Enoch not Genesis. This has led many readers, including R.A. Gilbert the editor of this reprint, to assume that Peter and Jude accepted the book as scripture. Of course quoting a book only proves you accept the book if you then agree with it. Those making this assumption tend to skip over such comments as Jude saying Michael would "not even rebuke" other heavenly beings - when the central event of 1 Enoch is the complaint of Michael to God in the heavenly throne room against the 200 fallen angels which gives Michael, Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael license to imprison them. Anyway, buy a translation of Enoch, read Peter and Jude and make up your own mind about whether they consider 1 Enoch scripture or, in Peter's words, "cunningly devised fables". You might also note that all extant Greek manuscripts of Jude have "Enoch prophesied TO these men", not "ABOUT these men" as the KJV has it. Small word, big difference. After the early Christian period Enoch enjoyed a vogue in the period from Tertullian (a real Enoch enthusiast) to Origen. After which the development of a new doctrine for the origin of the Devil based on Isaiah made Enoch redundant and it was sidelined into Coptic and Slavonic Christianity. Jews largely rejected the fallen angel myth from Trypho the Jew onwards - and Enochic material was excluded from both Jewish and Christian editions of the Septuagint, the Vulgate (and hence the apocrypha of the modern Jerusalem Bible), Mishnah, and Talmud.
In the modern era Enoch has come back into fashion again, partly due to the discovery of copies in Africa and Israel, partly due to the evident appeal of a story which tells the gaudy details of heavenly beings' sexual relations with human women and the fall of the rebel angels on which the Bible is so disappointingly negative.
For those to whom this story has less inherent appeal it is also interesting - if only to show what the NT writers were competing with.
Customer Reviews:
Will be reprinted soon.......2005-02-27
For all those people searching for this book, it is being republished, April 2005, by Sheffield-Phoenix Press. Look for ISBN 1 90504 8181 . I am sure Amazon.com will carry it when it is out.
Customer Reviews:
Non-Mystic, Western, Mormon Interpretation of the Ethiopian Prophet - Worthy to Read.......2007-07-27
As a RastafarI I have an interest in an Ethiopian prophet who got virtually expunged from the Bible by the European churches, but who still features canonically in the Ethiopian Bible. Sin-ce then, it has become known via the discoveries of various sources that the New Testament alone is actually still referencing/quoting the lost Book of Enoch 128 times. I knew this book would write from a Mormon perspective. In fact, in few instances, the author makes disadvantageous comments towards the Ethiopian version compared to some remaining Western ones. Underall, he writes very Western-centered, e.g. elaborating exclusively on the history of ancient and modern Western views and rediscoveries of Enoch. Including the 1830 revelation about Enoch to the young Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church), who the author reasons could not have known from any source about Enoch, the way he got confirmed later, e.g. by the Dead Sea Scroll find of 1945. The Mormon revelation text gets compared to ancient non-Christian and Christian texts about Enoch, e.g. the Ethiopian, Slavonic, Greek and Hebrew-Aramaic ones.
Hugh Nibley differentiates the personified from the conceptual Enoch. The former is the prophet who is - according to the holy texts - a 6th generation descendent of Adam, father of Methusaleh and great grandfather of Noah, whose story he prophesied. Enoch, "the first human not to die", but to ascend to God. The conceptual version is both, identified with many other holy figures like Adam, Seth, Melchisedek, Noah, Abraham, Moses, John the Baptist and so on, as well as a symbol, which had been known in many ancient countries; also to get projected onto anyone who was like him. The book provides several meaningful translation possibilities of the name Enoch.
As someone who didn't know a thing about Enoch, the book is well worth to read. Despite its general flaws and some others specifically to my perspective. It is very footnote ridden, with only part of them meant to be read. Published originally in 1986 it is comprised of four texts of varying length which had been written from 1974-77 for different purposes. As such, they are both, overlapping and somewhat incoherent, i.e. some things are missing, which would have been included, if written for a single purpose. Occasionally I thought that I had already read some parts and must have misplaced my bookmark accordingly, this involuntarily repetitive it gets from "chapter to chapter". Also, the comparisons between the various sources lead to repetitions, as the same text pieces are compared to various sources in different contexts. However, I have read much worse repetitions elsewhere.
Nibley avers, Enoch would be unpopular among gnostics. Personally, I wouldn't know about that, most certainly Hyam Maccoby thought differently in THE MYTH-MAKER. However, as a mystic myself, I find Nibley's assertion surprising. True is that he isn't seeing Enoch in a mystic way, even though some probably involuntary descriptions of mystic elements are found in his book - interpreted non-mystically. For example, he is reporting that according to Enoch, humans are creloved as a lesser unit within the greater. Being God (as an "individual") equals an Enoch. Zion (which would be Ithiopia in Iyaric) is a place, where Iveryone of one heart and one mind is living in vast distances from each other, but through God/Jah share common awareness of each other. Whereas the others (i.e. those living in Babylon) are plagued with continual wars and bloodshed. Enoch would be against separations, whereas those who are divided are scattered by the Lord. Yet, Nibley writes all of this, but doesn't get it. For example writing that the flood would have been absolutely necessary, for all manner of perversions among humans. Referring (only) to men dressing like women and vice versa. To begin with, I seriously doubt that the tenth generation of humans were wearing clothes at all yet. But then again, I also seriously doubt that the Adam concept is really referring to the first human. But that is the parameter of the author, who takes everything literally, i.e. not mystically. If I may comment in addition, I don't think Jah would have been interested to send the flood to enforce a dress code. (Especially, as in some pre-colonial African lands, gender-based clothing was the custom within a group - but occasionally reversed in neighbouring communities.) In fact, diametrically opposed, blinding separations such as of "genders" is exactly one of the things, the flood (for real or metaphorically) was sent for. (Compare to the Gospel According to Thomas, in which those find the kingdom of God, who make of two one, specifically of women and men.) In a similar vein, Nibley doesn't see the mystic purpose of the animals getting flooded along with the humans. It's not really, because they have sinned. (After all, the flood was sent for the humans who didn't listen to Enoch and Noah. How could animals?) But to symbolize the connection, i.e. non-separation between animals and humans, if that makes any sense to the non-mystics at this point of a condensed review.
The bottom line is: This book provides good basic information on the Enoch concept, embedded in Western, "orthodox" perspectives. For an Africancentered perspective read Enoch the Ethiopian: The Lost Prophet of the Bible : Greater Than Abraham, Holier Than Moses. However, I have to report sadly, this doesn't automatically make for a better book. As the cohesive text(s) of Enoch are not included in either version, read The Lost Book of Enoch: Comprehensive Transliteration of the Forgotten Book of the Bible.
Enoch the Prophet.......2007-05-07
This author has an great deal of knowledge. His book is wonderful. I'm not quite sure why people are quoting Lewis in fiction, when they have a giant in knowledge to quote from with Nibley.
Interesting insight into a debate among Mormons.......2002-04-25
Not being a member of the the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) I find myself a little at sea with this material, but for an outsider the book does present some interest in that Nibley is a respected Mormon scholar who advocates that the Book of Mormon (Hellaman 13:33) quotes Book of Enoch. As such Nibley is one of the main points of reference for the many members of LDS who respect the Book of Enoch. However in reading outside this book one finds that other Mormon scholars (notably Kent Jackson of BYU) reject both the Book of Enoch and Nibley's arguments.
As to the book itself, it is probably of very limited utility to anyone with an interest in pseudepigrapha - anyone wanting to know about Enoch outside the LDS context would go to an academic writer (Nickelsburg, Vanderkam) or editor (Charlesworth) - but it does shed light on why some Mormons consider Book of Enoch semi-inspired. Personally I find Nibley's evidence for traces of Enoch in the book of Mormon extremely weak - nothing more than a very vague similarity. The first translation in English of 1Enoch, by Richard Laurence, was published in 1821 but was not widely available in America - and appears not to have been known to early Mormons.
The loss and rediscovery of Enoch and comparisons to LDS.......1999-07-07
This erudite study includes essays discussing various Enoch texts, their suppression and loss, and more recent recovery, and even more recent appreciation in New Testament and Judaic studies. He includes essays on The Book of Enoch as a Theodicy (justification of the ways of God to man), a wide-ranging comparison of the themes of the Enoch literature with some of the oldest Egyptian, Greek, and Babylonian myths. Finally, he extensively compares the contents of the recently recovered Enoch texts from Ethiopia, Qumran, Slavonic, etc. with the Enoch material produced by Joseph Smith in 1830. Altogether mind-expanding and provocative.
Book Description
This Book forecasts the second advent of te Messiah. The most ancient of prophets-Enoch saw the Illuminating wonders of the greatness of God's creation. Enoch uttered his prophecies regarding the elect, centuries before the existence of Christianity.
This most sacred text-"The Book of Enoch, The Prophet" which was discovered in Ethiopia; describes the seven heavens and hells, and the angels who work the cosmos. A definite addition to one's biblical collection.
Customer Reviews:
The book that Satan and his church didnt want you to read. .......2006-01-05
According to the biblical narrative (Genesis 5:21-24), Enoch lived 365 years, far less than the other patriarchs in the period before the Flood. Enoch allegedly walked with God who turned him into the archangel Metatron.
He called the people back to his forefathers' religion, but only a few listened to him, while the majority turned away. According to the Talmud Selections when the people went astray, Enoch who lived a pious life in seclusion was given prophethood. He came among the people and by his sermons and speeches made the people give up the idolatory and obey the Command of God. Enoch ruled them and during his reign there was peace and justice.
Prophet Enoch and his followers left Babylon for Egypt. There he carried on his mission, calling people to what is just and fair, teaching them certain prayers and instructing them to fast on certain days and to give a portion of their wealth to the poor.
Enoch was the first to invent books and writing, much like Thoth the scribe.
The ancient Greeks declare that Enoch is the same as Mercury / Hermes Trismegistus writing the Emerald Tablets of Thoth.
Enoch taught the sons of men the art of building cities, and enacted some admirable laws. He discovered the knowledge of the Zodiac, and the course of the Planets; and he pointed out to the sons of men, that they should worship God, that they should fast, that they should pray, that they should give alms, votive offerings, and tenths. He reprobated abominable foods and drunkenness, and appointed festivals for sacrifices to the Sun, at each of the Zodiacal Signs.
Enoch's name signified in the Hebrew, Initiate or Initiator. The legend of the columns, of granite and brass or bronze, erected by him, is probably symbolical. That of bronze, which survived the flood, is supposed to symbolize the mysteries, of which Masonry is the legitimate successor from the earliest times the custodian and depository of the great philosophical and religious truths, unknown to the world at large, and handed down from age to age by an unbroken current of tradition, embodied in symbols, emblems, and allegories.
There was a substantial Zoroastrian Influence on Judaism when Jewish exiles were exposed to the Persian religion during the Babylonian captivity. Some Jews adopted Enochian tradition in Babylon during the Exile and brought it back to Canaan when Cyrus gave them leave to Return. The Enochian Jews were detested by the priesthood in Jerusalem, and they were forced to flee into the desert before 300 BCE. Naturally, they supported the Maccabees during the uprising of 165 BCE. The Enochians at Qumran 'updated' the text to include Judah the Hammer in the big story.
The last of the Essene stragglers buried the secret book in Cave IV at Qumran c.70 CE. The urban Christians and Jews of the Near East rejected it. The authors of the Apocalypse rewrote and retitled it, but they didn't understand the heptadic structure of the original lines, the arrangement of sevens. Only the students of the Merkabah in Babylonia possessed the key to the Enochian mystery.
The Book of Enoch is a pseudo-epigraphal work that claims to be written by a biblical character. It was not included in either the Hebrew or most Christian biblical canons, but could have been considered a sacred text by the sectarians. The original Aramaic version was lost until several Dead Sea Scroll fragments were discovered in Qumran Cave 4 - providing parts of the Aramaic original.
The Book of Enoch was first discovered in Abyssinia in the year 1773 by a Scottish explorer named James Bruce. In 1821 The Book of Enoch was translated by Richard Laurence and published in a number of successive editions, culminating in the 1883 edition.
Enoch acts as a scribe, writing up a petition on behalf of the fallen angels, or fallen ones, to be given to a higher power for ultimate judgment.
Christianity adopted some ideas from Enoch, including the Final Judgment, the concept of demons, the origins of evil and the fallen angels, and the coming of a Messiah and ultimately, a Messianic kingdom.
The Book of Enoch was removed from the Bible and banned by the early church. Copies of it were found to have survived in Ethiopia, and fragments in Greece and Italy.
Enoch is the supposed author of 366 books, collectively termed Enochian literature. The most famous writings bearing his name are the First, Second, and Third Books of Enoch, ranked among the large body of literature termed apocryphal and pseudepigraphical, meaning that they are noncanonical (not accepted into the body of recognized books of the Bible) and are-in the case of the pseudepigrapha-attributed to some person of note and written in the style of genuine biblical books. Most interesting of all the legends is the one in which Enoch was transported to heaven and there transformed into the angel Metatron. Once there, he was, with the divine flourish, made into Metatron, the angel of the face, high priest of the heavenly temple, and one of the supreme angels in all of the celestial hierarchy-not to mention the tallest of angels, with 36 wings and 265,000 eyes.
The three so-called pseudepigraphical works were allegedly written by or under the influence of the antediluvian patriarch Enoch, who was taken up to heaven by the Lord, an event described in the Book of Genesis (5:24); pseudepigraphical writings are those that are noncanonical (meaning not accepted into the body of biblical books) and were composed in a style intending to resemble or appear as authentic biblical literature, often assuming the title of some personage known to the audience. In the case of the Books of Enoch, the actual writers or compilers chose a figure who was the source of many legends and tales, the most notable being his transformation by God into the truly powerful angel Metatron. While decidedly uncanonical, the three books remain fascinating and colorful reading, as well as treasures of detail and fanciful images concerning angels.
1 ENOCH-Known also as the Ethiopic Book of Enoch from the fact that the only surviving complete manuscript of it is in Ethiopic , this is the oldest of the three Enoch books, dating to the mid-second century B.C., although it actually comprises various sections, each dated differently: "The Book of Noah"; "Similitudes"; "The Dream Visions"; "Apocalypse of the Weeks"; and "The Book of the Heavenly Luminaries." Aside from material on Gehenna and heaven and the nature of evil, the text is full of stories and accounts of angels. The writer covers the fall of angels, the names of the archangels, and the fire of the luminaries of heaven. The reader thus encounters such angelic personages as Raguel, Uriel, Gabriel, Raphael, Michael, and Saraqael.
2 ENOCH-Known also as the Slavonic Book of Enoch because the only extant version is a Slavonic translation of the Greek original text, this specific edition dates to the seventh century A. D., although it is based on a much older Jewish text of the first century. A.D. While similar in some ways to the first book of Enoch and perhaps using it as a source, the Slavonic Enoch details Enoch's journey through the seven heavens, the life of Enoch's successors, especially Methuselah, and then gives a forecast of the Great Flood that encompassed the world in later generations. There are descriptions of angels residing in the heavens.
3 ENOCH-Also called the Hebrew Apocalypse of Enoch, this is a Jewish writing dating probably to the second century A.D. It was allegedly written by the noted Rabbi Ishmael, a brilliant scholar of Palestine during the early second century A.D. He reputes to recount his journey to heaven, where he beheld the very throne of God, along with the hosts of angels. His information was granted to him by the archangel Metatron, the onetime patriarch Enoch. This work remains perhaps the single greatest compendium of angelic lore, including a comprehensive assemblage of angels, archangels, and holy creatures, such as the watchers and holy ones.
Outdated translation.......2001-06-20
What is it about the Book of Enoch that generates such appeal? Presumably the same myth and magic elements that gave it such a following among 2nd temple Judaism. Enoch originated about 300BC, and the oldest copies, dating back to about 150BC are found among the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran.
The best modern translations are to be found in the G. Vermes or Martinez editions of the Scrolls, or in the J. Charlesworth OT Pseudepigrapha set from Doubleday. A facsimile edition of R.H. Charles' 1912 translation is also worth obtaining for the copious notes. This translation by Laurence is not in the same category.
Despite all the enthusiasm that surrounds this book it is worth remembering that it has always been contested. Trypho the Jew, the Talmud, Pseudo-Philo, all the Rabbis prior to the 8th Century, St. Augustine, St. Jerome were only a few to contest the midrash interpretation of "Sons of God" of Gen6:2 as angels. The book was rejected from the Jewish canon, the Septuagint and Vulgate, and consequently the Apocrypha. After 400AD it was preserved only in minority Ethiopian and Slavonic traditions.
It is often noted that Jude quotes from this book, which is true - although with obvious sarcasm as the context shows; Jude's epithet "the seventh from Adam" is taken from Enoch60:8 not Genesis. Tertullian did quote from it and consider it as scripture, along with various other pseudepigraphical and apocryphal literature. It is also true that Peter gets his details regarding the "angels that sinned" being cast into Tartarus from Enoch. As also is indicated by the mentions of "myths" and "cunningly devised fables" with which Peter precedes it. "Abraham's bosom" in Luke 16, however is not drawn from Enoch but from the beliefs of the Pharisees recorded in Jewish burial papyri and various pre-Rabbinical myths. Given that the central figure in Luke16:19-30 is none other than Caiaphas (who else do we know of in AD30 Jerusalem who had 5 brothers?) it is obvious that there is heavy irony in this reference.
Although it is occasionally claimed that there is nothing in Enoch that contradicts the Bible, 2Peter2 states quite clearly that "angels do not accuse such beings" - a blunt contradiction of 1Enoch10 where Michael Gabriel Uriel and Raphael do exactly that, accusing the mythical rebel angels. This is confirmed by Jude who even names Michael in his parallel rebuttal of 1Enoch. Further Christ states that Angels do not marry. Given that the only reference in the entire body of early Jewish literature to Angels marrying is the Enoch myth, this can only be a contradiction of 1Enoch.
In other words the writers of the New Testament knew about this book and rejected it. It is still interesting however to see what Peter and Jude's opponents were teaching.
Average customer rating:
|
Los ángeles caídos y los orígenes del mal (Alamah Espiritualidad)
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Manufacturer: Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara, S.A. de C.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Channeling
| New Age
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
Prophecy
| Divination
| New Age
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
General
| New Age
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
Angels
| Spirituality
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Christianity
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
Apocrypha
| Bible & Other Sacred Texts
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
Spanish
| Foreign Language Nonfiction
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
No-Ficción
| Libros en español
| Formats
| Books
| Automotriz
| Ciencias Sociales
| Crimen y Criminales
| Educación
| Estudios de la Mujer
| Feriados
| Filosofía
| Gobierno
| Hechos Verídicos
| Planeamiento Urbano y Desarrollo
| Política
| Sucesos de Actualidad
| Transportación
La Biblia y Otros Textos Sagrados
| Religión y espiritualidad
| Libros en español
| Formats
| Books
| Biblia
General
| Cristianismo
| Religión y espiritualidad
| Libros en español
| Formats
| Books
Canalizando
| Nueva Era
| Religión y espiritualidad
| Libros en español
| Formats
| Books
Profecía
| Adivinación
| Nueva Era
| Religión y espiritualidad
| Libros en español
| Formats
| Books
General
| Nueva Era
| Religión y espiritualidad
| Libros en español
| Formats
| Books
Angeles
| Espiritualidad
| Religión y espiritualidad
| Libros en español
| Formats
| Books
ASIN: 9681909216 |
Book Description
¿Adoptaron cuerpo humano los ángeles rebeldes para satisfacer su lujuria por las "hijas de los hombres"? ¿Enseñaron estos ángeles caídos a los hombres a construir armas guerra?
Ésta parece ser la premisa del "Libro de Henoc", un texto apreciado por los antiguos judíos y por los cristianos, que sin embargo, fue condenado más tarde tanto por los rabinos como por los Padres de la Iglesia católica. El libro fue prohibido y "extraviado" por más de mil años hasta que, en 1773, un explorador escocés descubrió tres copias en Etiopía.
Elizabeth Clare Prophet examina la controversia que se ha generado en torno a este libro y ayuda a clarificar los misterios prohibidos de Henoc. Demuestra que Jesús y sus apóstoles estudiaron el "Libro de Henoc" y nos dice por qué los Padres de la Iglesia suprimieron lo que enseñaba: cómo los ángeles podían encarnar en cuerpo humano.
"Los ángeles caídos y los orígenes del mal" nos lleva de vuelta al drama primordial entre el Bien y el Mal, cuando se insinuó por primera vez la corrupción en un cosmos prístino.
Books:
- Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday Life
- First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CS (Clinical Skills Exam)
- First Spanish Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book (Beginners' Guides)
- Five Quarters of the Orange
- Fodor's Around Washington, D.C. with Kids (Around the City with Kids)
- French: Lonely Planet Phrasebook
- Frommer's Belize (Frommer's Complete)
- Frommer's Brazil (Frommer's Complete)
- Glen Denny: Yosemite in the Sixties
- Guide to Colorado Backroads & 4-Wheel Drive Trails, 2nd Edition
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- Powerful Conversations: How High Impact Leaders Communicate
- Hitler And Stalin: Parallel Lives
- Currency Derivatives: Pricing Theory, Exotic Options, and Hedging Applications
- Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima
- How Computer Programming Works
- Home to Big Stone Gap: A Novel
- Integrated Chinese, Level 1, Part 2: Textbook, Simplified Characters, Second Edition
- Tax Compliance for Tax-Exempt Organizations 2004
- Global Shift, Third Edition: Transforming the World Economy
- Hearing Voices - Collected Stories & Drawings
The Lost Book of Enoch: Comprehensive Transliteration of the Forgotten Book of the Bible
The Book of Enoch the Prophet
Dictionary of Angels: Including the Fallen Angels
The Book of Enoch
