Description:

The Book of the Secrets of Enoch was preserved only in the Slavonic tongue and was thought lost until 1892. Even when rediscovered it was thought that this text was just another version of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch; but the Secrets of Enoch is an entirely new pseudepigraph and not a version of the well-known Book of Enoch. It seems to have been translated from a lost Greek original and was written by a Coptic Jew in Alexandria during the earliest period of the Christian era. It is of no less value than the Ethiopic Enoch. Discoveries regarding the planets &c. which Joel circa 1200 AD ascribed to the god Seth are probably ultimately derived from this book. Likewise some statements on the Sabbath and the duration of the world found in Josephus and the Book of Jubilees should be ascribed to this source. Scholars of Babylonian traditions, apocalyptic Judaism, and mystical Christianity will find material of great interest. Ideas and phrases from this book may even have been incorporated into the Koran.