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descendants of these people are the Falashas, who even today
follow the form of Judaism that had been practiced in Israel only

before 620 BC. The Ethiopians translated The Book of Hanokh into
Ge’ez and had enough respect to look after it. Meanwhile, all
Hebrew versions disappeared but a substantial part of the book

had survived in Greek, and some parts in Aramaic, but until
Scottish traveler, and freemason, James Bruce, returned from

Ethiopia in 1773, with three manuscripts, no one in the west had
ever seen the whole book.

The two commonly available translations were done soon after
this and the book was received with an embarrassed silence, for
the most part, and not widely read.

This book is based on a new translation published in 1978, which
was produced as a result of research into a large number of the

Ethiopian manuscripts and a review of all other surviving
fragments. My hope is that this present edition will be the best

version of Enoch's book available in English. I think this is an
important book, and I have done my best to present it as clearly
as possible, and in a way that I hope Hanokh would have

approved of.

I believe the text to be in good condition generally. It seems to
be almost complete, with a beginning and an end, and it is self-

consistent. Even more significant is the way that Enoch's

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