The Book of Enoch part 2

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The Book of Enoch

The book consists of 5 parts:

Part 2

The Book of Parables of Enoch

Also called the Similitudes of Enoch

Chapters 37–71

Similitudes means semblance; image: a similitude of the truth. a likening or comparison in the form of a simile, parable, or allegory: He spoke by similitudes.

A short section of 1 Enoch (1:9) is cited in the New Testament Epistle of Jude, Jude 1:14–15, and is attributed there to "Enoch the Seventh from Adam" (1 Enoch 60:8), although this section of 1 Enoch is a mid-rash on Deuteronomy 33:2. Several copies of the earlier sections of 1 Enoch were preserved among the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Mid-rash means is biblical exegesis by ancient Judaic authorities, using a mode of interpretation prominent in the Talmud. The word itself means "textual interpretation", "study". Midrash and rabbinic readings "discern value in texts, words, and letters, as potential revelatory spaces"
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