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    "slug": "book-of-enoch",
    "name": "The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)",
    "stream": "egyptian-hebrew",
    "epoch_reflected": "egypto-chaldean",
    "epoch_written": "greco-latin",
    "form": "apocalyptic",
    "tradition": "Jewish pseudepigrapha",
    "year_approx": -300,
    "note": "Jewish apocalyptic literature surviving in full only in Ethiopic (1 Enoch). Contains the Book of the Watchers (the angels who fell with Shemyaza and Azazel), the Book of Parables (Son of Man passages), the Astronomical Book, the Animal Apocalypse, and the Epistle of Enoch. R.H. Charles's Oxford translation (1917, on his 1912 critical text).",
    "steiner_loci": []
  },
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    {
      "slug": "enoch-watchers",
      "name": "Book I — Book of the Watchers",
      "author": "Anonymous (1 Enoch compositors)",
      "year_approx": -200,
      "translator": null,
      "form": "Jewish apocalyptic / pseudepigrapha",
      "subtitle": "Chapters 1–36 — the angelic fall and Enoch's cosmological tour",
      "blurb": "Two hundred Watchers under Semjâzâ and Azâzêl descend on Mount Hermon, take wives, beget the giants, and teach the forbidden arts. Enoch is commissioned to declare their sentence. His ascent to the throne of the Great Glory; his tour of the storehouses of the winds, the prison of the fallen stars, the four hollows of the dead, the seven mountains, and the tree of life.",
      "chapter_count": 28,
      "word_count": 8584,
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    {
      "slug": "enoch-parables",
      "name": "Book II — Book of Parables (Similitudes)",
      "author": "Anonymous (1 Enoch compositors)",
      "year_approx": -200,
      "translator": null,
      "form": "Jewish apocalyptic / pseudepigrapha",
      "subtitle": "Chapters 37–71 — the three parables and the Son of Man",
      "blurb": "Enoch's three parables (Similitudes) on the coming of the Righteous One, the Elect One, and the Son of Man — named before the creation of the sun and stars. The Lord of Spirits enthroned; the judgment of the kings and the mighty; the great resurrection; Enoch's final translation as Son of Man.",
      "chapter_count": 32,
      "word_count": 11953,
      "landing_url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-parables/",
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    {
      "slug": "enoch-astronomy",
      "name": "Book III — Astronomical Book",
      "author": "Anonymous (1 Enoch compositors)",
      "year_approx": -200,
      "translator": null,
      "form": "Jewish apocalyptic / pseudepigrapha",
      "subtitle": "Chapters 72–82 — the Book of Heavenly Luminaries",
      "blurb": "Uriel reveals the courses of the sun and moon, the twelve gates of heaven, the twelve winds, the seven mountains and seven rivers, the four intercalary days, and the disruption of these courses in the last days. Enoch transmits the entire astronomical law to his son Methuselah.",
      "chapter_count": 10,
      "word_count": 5277,
      "landing_url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/",
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    {
      "slug": "enoch-dream-visions",
      "name": "Book IV — Book of Dream Visions",
      "author": "Anonymous (1 Enoch compositors)",
      "year_approx": -200,
      "translator": null,
      "form": "Jewish apocalyptic / pseudepigrapha",
      "subtitle": "Chapters 83–90 — two dreams (Deluge + Animal Apocalypse)",
      "blurb": "First dream: heaven cast down — the coming Deluge — and Enoch's prayer that a remnant remain. Second dream: the Animal Apocalypse — the whole history of Israel told through bulls, sheep, and beasts of prey; the seventy shepherds of the exile; the Maccabean lamb; the great horn of the Messiah; the new house of the messianic kingdom.",
      "chapter_count": 8,
      "word_count": 6236,
      "landing_url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-dream-visions/",
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    },
    {
      "slug": "enoch-epistle",
      "name": "Book V — Epistle of Enoch (with Appendix)",
      "author": "Anonymous (1 Enoch compositors)",
      "year_approx": -200,
      "translator": null,
      "form": "Jewish apocalyptic / pseudepigrapha",
      "subtitle": "Chapters 91–108 — the Apocalypse of Weeks and the closing exhortations",
      "blurb": "Enoch's final charge to his children. The Apocalypse of Weeks divides history into ten weeks of righteousness and apostasy. Series of woes against the wicked and consolation for the righteous. The birth of Noah, born radiant; the closing book of comfort for the elect of the last generation.",
      "chapter_count": 17,
      "word_count": 7491,
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