Book(s) of Enoch..?

[a.tinkerer]

Book(s) of Enoch, early, not edited as much as possible...

Wasn't this work written in more than one language?
Ancient/extinct languages..?

What's the best way to get a relatively readable (for a 21st century American dude) translation/copy of these works that hasn't been reformed for confirmation to modern faith standards?

[damon1272]

Here is a decent reading of the Book of Enoch.

http://scriptural-truth.com/images/BookOfEnoch.pdf

Though Enoch Enoch existed and is referenced in Jude 1:14-15 and was the seventh from Adam and the father of Methuselah we do not know if anything attributed to Enoch is true or if it was a Gnostic writing. Either way it should be treated as fiction and not as inspired text. If this writing were all true it would fill in some gaps but there again it does not speak of Christ and the writing is waaay out there. Personally treat it as fiction and something to ponder but nothing to believe or place faith in.

[a.tinkerer]

Thanks Damon

Merry Christmas

[CVShooter]

I had read it at some point. My wife took a class on the Pseudepigrapha but I later took one on the NT Apocrypha so I remember a lot less about Enoch. But it was all decades ago. You can buy a compilation of the Pseudepigraphical writings easy enough. It comes in 2 volumes. The translations are as good as any, as I recall. Some might have more fact than fiction but, for whatever reason, the church decided not to include them in the "approved" canon of scripture, we know as the Old Testament. It's good history, though. I think of them as branches that the dominant leadership pruned off the tree of Judaism or Christianity. It may or may not be helpful in your religious practice but it is extremely helpful in understanding the perspectives of those alive at the time it was written.