About this book

1 Enoch (the Ethiopic Book of Enoch) is a Jewish apocalyptic work composed from the 3rd century BCE onward and preserved in Ge‘ez in the Ethiopian Orthodox canon. It collects the Book of the Watchers, the Book of the Luminaries (chs 72–82, the Astronomical Book), the Similitudes, the Animal Apocalypse, and the Apocalypse of Weeks. The Charles 1917 SPCK translation (all 108 chapters) is the complete public-domain English edition hosted here.

Relevance to this project

The calendrical substrate and the sky-as-text image (§13): the 364-day calendar and the twelve gates of the sun (Book of the Luminaries, chs 72–82), the heavenly tablets, the Watchers who teach the forbidden arts, and the stars that transgress — the Enochic astronomy the stellar-alphabet thesis rests on.

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