An apocryphal work which claims to come from the hands of Enoch, but which most scholars believe was written about the 2nd/1st Cent BC. Containing much material on the origins of demons and their fall, the whole of the work is extant only in the Ethiopian Geez language, while fragments of it are found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. While different Jewish and Christian circles were attracted to it, it is rejected, with the exception of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, as canonical by them both.
At least some of the NT authors were acquainted with the work. A short section of the work is quoted in Jude 1:14-15 (Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them:
See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
Some commentators believe that the cryptic remarks in 1 Pet 3:19-20 ("After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits—to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water") and 2 Pet 2:4-5 ("For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others") may also owe their origin to 1 Enoch.
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