From The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Books of 1Enoch & Jubilees Audiobook (Free)

The Books of 1Enoch and Jubilees are by far both most common extra-biblical texts discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls. That alone is reason enough to study them with great curiosity. Here are some more reasons to give each one of these “time capsules” of Pre-Christian Jewish thought and theology the unabridged and uninterrupted listens they deserve. Only then is one able to completely grasp the teachings of the brand new Testament for oneself.

1Enoch

How come The Reserve of 1Enoch is directly quoted in approximately From The Dead Ocean Scrolls: The Books of 1Enoch & Jubilees the New Testament by Jude (vv.14-15). Themes from the reserve referenced in 2 Peter 2:1. Jesus also utilized content from The Book of Enoch in many of his sermons in Matthew and Luke. The first 36 chapters have been regarded scripture in the Ethiopic Coptic Chapel (a chapel that ascribes their founder as the Apostle John). It had been one of the most significant Jewish Pseudepigrapha (writings ascribed to some other than the genuine author). It really is believed which the Book of 1Enoch was taken out of the Jewish Canon by the Sanhedrin soon after Jesus’ loss of life due to the prophesies they believed pointed to Jesus as the Messiah. However, The Oxford Dictionary from the Christian Chapel claims, “…this view continues to be increasingly questioned, especially since the discovery from the Qumran fragments [where Dead Sea Scrolls were found]; for although the rest of the parts of 1 Enoch are well represented in these fragments, the messianic chapters (37-71) weren’t symbolized at all. Nor are they symbolized in the Greek and Latin fragments. It is probable, therefore, they are a later (Christian) insertion into the Book which it was the New Testament which affected them rather than vice versa.”

Jubilees

Between 1947 and 1956, approximately 15 copies from the “Publication of Jubilees” were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. That is second just in number to Psalms, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Exodus, and Genesis, and much larger than every other extra-biblical text found there, including The Reserve of 1Enoch. Also known as the “Small Genesis,” “Lesser Genesis”, “Book of Divisions,” as well as the “Apocalypse of Moses,” the “Publication of Jubilees” can be an apocryphal work (not approved as Scripture) which historians believe was sent to Moses by God on Mount Sinai. It had been almost lost over a large number of years, but was retrieved through the Ethiopic language. It re-interprets the material of Genesis 1 – Exodus 12 (or regarding to some scholars, Genesis 1 – Exodus 15:22 or Exodus 16), that are here arranged in 49 periods, each of 49 years in length, the whole forming a Jubilee of Jubilees (Lev 25: 8-13).

The Book also gives extra details such as the fall of the angels, and the creation and destruction from the Nephilim detailing that one-tenth of their disembodied spirits would stay on globe as demons to tempt people and the others will be imprisoned until the Tribulation Period. The Oxford Christian Dictionary expresses, “The original Hebrew text survives just in fragments within the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran. Up until their discovery, the task was known just from an Ethiopic translation of the complete and incomplete versions in Latin and Syriac. The fact that the surviving Hebrew fragments are from at least 12 different caves indicates that the Book enjoyed considerable reputation among the Qumran community.” (The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Chapel, s.v. “Jubilees, Publication of.” Page 905.)