<P> Outside of Ethiopia , the text of the Book of Enoch was considered lost until the beginning of the seventeenth century , when it was confidently asserted that the book was found in an Ethiopic ( Ge'ez ) language translation there , and Nicolas - Claude Fabri de Peiresc bought a book that was claimed to be identical to the one quoted by the Epistle of Jude and the Church Fathers . Hiob Ludolf , the great Ethiopic scholar of the 17th and 18th centuries , soon claimed it to be a forgery produced by Abba Bahaila Michael . </P>
<P> Outside of Ethiopia , the text of the Book of Enoch was considered lost until the beginning of the seventeenth century , when it was confidently asserted that the book was found in an Ethiopic ( Ge'ez ) language translation there , and Nicolas - Claude Fabri de Peiresc bought a book that was claimed to be identical to the one quoted by the Epistle of Jude and the Church Fathers . Hiob Ludolf , the great Ethiopic scholar of the 17th and 18th centuries , soon claimed it to be a forgery produced by Abba Bahaila Michael . </P>
when did they find the book of enoch
when did they find the book of enoch
the beginning of the seventeenth century
the beginning of the seventeenth century