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In April a congresswoman pinned "Read the book of Enoch" to the top of her feed, and a cable host told America the government made a deal with demons for the bomb. They're pointing at a real book. First Enoch is older than every document in the New Testament, quoted as prophecy by the letter of Jude, and read as scripture by the people who wrote the Gospels. It's where the Christian ideas of demons, a hell of fire, the archangel Michael with his chain, the seven archangels, Lucifer's fall from pride, and the Nephilim actually come from, and almost none of that is in the Bible you were handed in Sunday school. SOURCES — The Books of EnochPRIMARY TEXTS AND EDITIONSNickelsburg, George W. E. 1 Enoch 1: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 1–36; 81–108. Hermeneia. Fortress Press, 2001.Nickelsburg, George W. E., and James C. VanderKam. 1 Enoch 2: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 37–82. Hermeneia. Fortress Press, 2012.Nickelsburg, George W. E., and James C. VanderKam. 1 Enoch: A New Translation. Fortress Press, 2004; 2nd ed. 2012.Charles, R. H. The Book of Enoch. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893; 2nd ed. 1912. (Public domain; quotations in the script follow Charles.)Charles, R. H. The Ethiopic Version of the Book of Enoch. Oxford, 1906.Knibb, Michael A. The Ethiopic Book of Enoch. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.Milik, J. T. The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumrân Cave 4. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.Stuckenbruck, Loren T. The Book of Giants from Qumran. Mohr Siebeck, 1997.Stuckenbruck, Loren T. 1 Enoch 91–108. Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature. De Gruyter, 2007.Laurence, Richard. The Book of Enoch the Prophet. Oxford, 1821.Dillmann, August. Liber Henoch Aethiopice. Leipzig, 1851; Das Buch Henoch, 1853.Bouriant, Urbain. "Fragments du texte grec du livre d'Énoch." Mémoires de la Mission archéologique française au Caire 9.1 (1892). (Codex Panopolitanus / Akhmim codex.)Bonner, Campbell. The Last Chapters of Enoch in Greek. Studies and Documents 8. London, 1937. (Chester Beatty–Michigan papyrus.)Andersen, F. I. "2 (Slavonic Apocalypse of) Enoch." In Charlesworth, ed., The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 1. Doubleday, 1983.Alexander, Philip. "3 (Hebrew Apocalypse of) Enoch." In Charlesworth, ed., The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 1. Doubleday, 1983.Odeberg, Hugo. 3 Enoch, or The Hebrew Book of Enoch. Cambridge, 1928.Hagen, Joost L. "No Longer 'Slavonic' Only: 2 Enoch Attested in Coptic from Nubia." In Orlov and Boccaccini, eds., New Perspectives on 2 Enoch. Brill, 2012.VanderKam, James C. The Book of Jubilees. 2 vols. CSCO 510–511. Peeters, 1989.Fitzmyer, Joseph A. The Genesis Apocryphon of Qumran Cave 1 (1Q20). 3rd ed. Biblical Institute Press, 2004.Wise, Michael, Martin Abegg, and Edward Cook. The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation. HarperOne, 1996; rev. 2005.Syncellus, George. The Chronography of George Synkellos. Trans. William Adler and Paul Tuffin. Oxford, 2002.Scaliger, Joseph. Thesaurus Temporum. Leiden, 1606.Fabricius, Johann Albert. Codex Pseudepigraphus Veteris Testamenti. Hamburg, 1713.Bruce, James. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. 5 vols. Edinburgh, 1790.VanderKam, James C. Enoch and the Growth of an Apocalyptic Tradition. CBQ Monograph 16. Catholic Biblical Association, 1984.VanderKam, James C. Enoch: A Man for All Generations. University of South Carolina Press, 1995.Reed, Annette Yoshiko. Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2005.Nickelsburg, George W. E. "Enoch, Levi, and Peter: Recipients of Revelation in Upper Galilee." Journal of Biblical Literature 100.4 (1981): 575–600.Suter, David. "Fallen Angel, Fallen Priest: The Problem of Family Purity in 1 Enoch 6–16." Hebrew Union College Annual 50 (1979): 115–135.Boccaccini, Gabriele, ed. Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man:
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