jan 1, 180 BC - Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 1-36)

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"These chapters are a collection of revelatory traditions that have accreted over a period of time. ... Our earliest Aramaic manuscript evidence indicates that at least chapters 1-11 were already a literary unit in the first half of the second century B.C.E. [200-150 BCE]. As we shall see, chapters 1-5 are the introduction to a larger number of chapters, probably 6-36. Evidence in 1 Enoch 85-90 indicates that 1 Enoch 1-36 was known before the death of Judas Maccabeaus in 160 B.C.E. Hence we are justified in treating these chapters as a product of the period before 175 B.C.E." (Nickelsburg 2005: 46)

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