The Books of Enoch

This translation contains all three Books of Enoch:

1) The 1st Book of Enoch (also called The Ethiopic Book of Enoch)

2) The 2nd Book of Enoch (also called The Slavonic Book of Enoch, The Secrets of Enoch). This also contains the extended version of the 2nd Book of Enoch, The Exaltation of Melchizedek.

3) The 3rd Book of Enoch (also called The Hebrew Book of Enoch)

Although this book is considered apocryphal for the Western canon, it is contained in the Ethiopic Bible. It was considered sacred by some but was left out of the Bible and disappeared for centuries until it was rediscovered in Ethiopic. According to most scholars, part of it was written in the third century BCE and part of it in the first century CE (the part related to the Son of Man). Although the oldest complete copies of 1 Enoch are K-9 or Kebran 9, dated late fourteenth to early fifteenth century, and Ethiopian Monastic Microfilm Library (EMML 2080) of the fifteenth or fourteenth century, fragments found in Qumran in the 1950s are more than 2000 years old. Other important old manuscripts are Abbadianus 55 (possibly fifteenth century) and British Museum Orient 485 (first half of the sixteenth century).

The 2nd Book of Enoch, the Slavonic Enoch, is another apocryphal book, found complete only in Old Slavonic manuscripts, and it was once present in the Old Slavonic Bible. It's usually dated to the first century CE, although Matthew Black in The Oxford Guide to People & Places of the Bible states that there is no manuscript earlier than the fourteenth century BCE.

The 3rd Book of Enoch, the Hebrew Enoch, is a Rabbinic text originally written in Hebrew, usually dated to the fifth century CE. Some experts believe it was written by Rabbi Ishmael (second century CE).