they took the book of enoch out of the bible in 701 bce.
when did they take the book of enoch out of the bible?
701 bce
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bullet::::- moses 6 (cf. genesis 5): expansions in the early part of the chapter further describe the story of the righteous seth. the "genealogy" of his descendants are said to be kept in a "book of remembrance." jewish and islamic sources describe a similar book, intended to preserve "the primordial wisdom of paradise for adam and his generations" and also "the genealogy of the entire human race". moses chapter 6 contains the story of the call and preaching of enoch. though the biblical account of enoch's life occupies only two verses, his story fills most of chapter 6 and all of chapter 7 of the book of moses. extended accounts of the experiences of enoch, which contain surprising parallels with the book of moses (particularly in qumran's enochic "book of giants"), also circulated widely in second temple judaism and early christianity. some of the most significant resemblances in moses chapter 6 are found not in 1 enoch, but in related pseudepigrapha published after the death of joseph smith such as the second book of enoch (first published at the end of the 19th century), 3 enoch (first widely circulated translation was by odeberg in 1928), but especially in the intriguing elaborations of the qumranic "book of giants" (discovered in 1948). as an example of parallels with second book of enoch and 3 enoch, moses 6:31 calls the 65-year-old enoch a "lad" (the only use of this term in lds scripture), corresponding to the somewhat puzzling use of this term to describe enoch/metatron in, e.g., 2 enoch 10:4 and 3 enoch 3:2, 4:2, and 4:10. speaking of a reference to "lad" in the second book of enoch, non-mormon scholar gary anderson writes: "the acclamation of enoch as 'lad' is curious .… it is worth noting that of all the names given enoch, the title 'lad' is singled out as being particularly apt and fitting by the heavenly host." with regard to the book of the giants the parallels with the enoch chapters in the book of moses are concentrated in a scant three pages of qumran fragments. these resemblances range from general themes in the story line (secret works, murders, visions, earthly and heavenly books of remembrance that evoke fear and trembling, moral corruption, hope held out for repentance, and the eventual defeat of enoch’s adversaries in battle, ending with their utter destruction and imprisonment) to specific occurrences of rare expressions in corresponding contexts (the reference to the "wild man," the name and parallel role of mahijah/mahujah, and the "roar of the wild beasts").
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