XC. 1-5. Third Period—from Alexander the Great to the Graeco-Syrian Domination
- Date of account
- Composite work, broadly c. 300 BCE to 100 BCE
- Source
- The book of Enoch
- Reference
- The book of Enoch · selected passage 57
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- Ge'ez preserved in complete form; translated from earlier Semitic and Greek textual traditions
- Translation
- R. H. Charles, with W. O. E. Oesterley
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
in this manner =thirty-five= shepherds undertook the pasturing (of the sheep), and they severally completed their periods as did the first; and others received them into their hands to pasture them for their period, each shepherd in his own period
Published source text
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyin this manner =thirty-five= shepherds undertook the pasturing (of the sheep), and they severally completed their periods as did the first; and others received them into their hands to pasture them for their period, each shepherd in his own period. 2. And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of heaven coming, the eagles, the vultures, the kites, the ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began to devour those sheep, and to pick out their eyes and to devour their flesh. 3. And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being devoured by the birds, and as for me I looked and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep. 4. And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites, and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their bones stood there: and their bones too fell to the earth and the sheep became few. 5.
Historical context
Contextual commentary · mention onlyThis is a passage from a historical religious or interpretive text. Its genre, manuscript history, translation and place within its own tradition are part of the evidence and must remain visible.
Modern context
Contextual commentary · mention onlyLattice can compare the passage's descriptive features with later reports, but resemblance does not turn a vision, angel, mythic creature or sacred narrative into a modern incident report.
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