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Enoch, Jubilees, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the apocrypha written between the Bible's last books and the rabbis.
Wiki entries 7
- Book of Enoch The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch) is a composite Second Temple Jewish apocalyptic work attributed to the antediluvian patriarch Enoch, surviving complete…
- Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls are roughly 950 manuscripts recovered from the caves at Qumran between 1947 and 1956, dating from the third century BCE to the…
- Masoretic Text The Masoretic Text (MT) is the standard Hebrew text of the Tanakh: the ancient consonantal text supplied with vowel-pointing (niqqud), cantillation…
- Nephilim The Nephilim (Hebrew: nephilim, conventionally 'the fallen ones,' rendered gigantes — 'giants' — in the Greek Septuagint) are the figures introduced…
- Satan Satan (שָׂטָן, Hebrew: 'adversary,' 'accuser,' 'opponent') is an Eloha figure on the home world, leader of the political faction within the Elohim…
- Septuagint The Septuagint (LXX) is the Koine Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, begun with the Torah in third-century-BCE Alexandria and largely…
- Watchers The Watchers (Aramaic ʿîrin, 'wakeful ones'; Greek egrēgoroi; Slavonic Grigori) are the heavenly beings of the Enochic tradition — most fully…
Articles 4
- Are the Watchers and the Nephilim the Same? The Watchers and the Nephilim belong to the same antediluvian episode, but they are not the same beings. 'Watcher' is an Aramaic term for a wakeful…
- Unsealed in Year One The companion to 'The Scrolls That Woke in Year One': that Explainer tells what happened to the jars — the discovery, the forty-year publication…
- The Scrolls That Woke in Year One In the winter of 1946/47 — the first year of the calendar the Raëlian canon counts from the flash over Hiroshima — a Bedouin shepherd broke open a…
- Are Lucifer and Satan the Same? Almost everyone treats Lucifer and Satan as two names for one being: the Devil, the fallen angel, the adversary of God. The Hebrew Bible does not.…
Library 6
- 1 Enoch (Watchers + Astronomical Book) 1 Enoch 1–36 and 72–82, the Book of the Watchers and the Astronomical Book, translated verse by verse from the Aramaic, Greek and Ge'ez witnesses,…
- Book Of Enoch Book Of Enoch — 108 chapters, 437 verses. Part of Books of Enoch in the Second Temple apocrypha.
- Book of Jubilees The Book of Jubilees — 50 chapters retelling Genesis through the lens of angelic revelation, with expanded Watchers narrative and a jubilee calendar.
- Jubilees (Ship A: Primeval + Patriarchal Frame) Jubilees 1–12 translated verse by verse from the Hebrew, Greek and Ge'ez witnesses: creation, the Watchers, the Flood, the 364-day calendar and…
- Tobit Tobit 12 translated from the Greek: the companion of Tobias reveals that he is Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, who neither ate nor drank.
- Wisdom of Solomon Two chapters of the Wisdom of Solomon translated from the Greek: wisdom easily seen by those who love her, and the maker known by analogy from his…
Most-cited sources 8
- 1 Enoch 1: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 1-36; 81-108
- The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
- Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature
- Satan: A Biography
- The Dead Sea Scrolls Today
- On the Jerusalem Origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books)
- The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament