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The Apostolic Age · c. AD 1–100; date heavily disputed

Second Enoch

The Book of the Secrets of Enoch

Anonymous

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What it is

Enoch is carried through ten heavens, sees the prison of the fallen watchers and the place prepared for the righteous, is anointed and clothed as one of the glorious ones, and returns for thirty days to dictate three hundred and sixty-six books.

Why it lasted

Preserved only in Slavonic monasteries, and containing the fullest ancient description of the seven or ten heavens Paul's third heaven belongs to. Whether it is first-century or medieval remains genuinely open.

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Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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