Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)
- Date of account
- Core materials late Second Temple period; Ethiopic transmission medieval and later
- Location
- Ethiopian Christian manuscript tradition; earlier materials from Judea
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
1 Enoch is a composite Jewish apocalyptic work preserved most completely in Ge'ez, with sections describing heavenly journeys, angelic instruction, cosmic geography, judgment and the destinies of the dead. It matters for comparison because Ethiopian Christianity preserved a text largely lost in other traditions, while its imagery intersects with later Christian and Islamic accounts of celestial travel. The work is not a single eyewitness narrative: its components have different dates, authorship hypotheses and transmission histories. The Ge'ez witnesses are medieval copies of an older translation tradition.
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