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(100 B.C. to 1 B.C.) 1 Enoch i.-v.; xxxvii.-lxxi.; xci.-civ. Testaments of the XII. Patriarchs, i.e. T. Lev. x., xiv.-xvi., T. Jud. xxi. 6-xxiii, T. Zeb. ix., T. Dan. v. 6, 7. Psalms of Solomon. (A.D. 1-100 and later.) Assumption of Moses. Apocalypse of Baruch. 4 Ezra. Greek Apocalypse of Baruch. Apocalypse of Zephaniah. Apocalypse of Abraham. Prayer of Joseph. Book of Eldad and Modad. Apocalypse of Elijah. (b) _Hellenistic_:-- 2 Enoch. Oracles of Hystaspes. Testament of Job. Testaments of the III. Patriarchs. Sibylline Oracles (excluding Christian portions). _Book of Noah._--Though this book has not come down to us independently, it has in large measure been incorporated in the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, and can in part be reconstructed from it. The Book of Noah is mentioned in Jubilees x. 13, xxi. 10. Chapters lx., lxv.-lxix. 25 of the Ethiopic Enoch are without question derived from it. Thus lx. 1 runs: "In the year 500, in the seventh month ... in the life of Enoch." Here the editor simply changed the name Noah in the context before him into Enoch, for the statement is based on Gen. v. 32, and Enoch lived only 365 years. Chapters vi.-xi. are clearly from the same source; for they make no reference to Enoch, but bring forward Noah (x. 1) and treat of the sin of the angels that led to the flood, and of their temporal and eternal punishment. This section is compounded of the Semjaza and Azazel myths, and in its present composite form is already presupposed by 1 Enoch lxxxviii.-xc. Hence these chapters are earlier than 166 B.C. Chapters cvi.-cvii. of the same book are probably from the same source; likewise liv. 7-lv. 2, and Jubilees vii. 20-39, x. 1-15. In the former passage of Jubilees the subject-matter leads to this identification, as well as the fact that Noah is represented as speaking in the first person, although throughout Jubilees it is the angel that speaks. Possibly Eth. En. xli. 3-8, xliii.-xliv., lix. are from the same work. The book may have opened with Eth. En. cvi.-cvii. On these chapters may have followed Eth. En. vi.-xi., lxv.-lxix. 25, lx., xli. 3-8, xliii.-xliv., liv. 7-lv. 2; Jubilees vii. 26-39, x. 1-15. The Hebrew Book of Noah, a later work, is printed in Jellinek's _Bet ha-Midrasch_, iii. 155-156, and translated into German in Ronsch, _Das Buch der Jubilaen_, 385-387. It is based on the part of the above Book of Noah which is preserv
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