2 Enoch (Slavonic Enoch)

The Second Book of Enoch (also Slavonic Enoch, Slavic Enoch, or Secrets of Enoch) is a pseudepigraphic apocalyptic text describing the ascent of Enoch through the seven heavens.|||Survives only in Old Slavonic manuscripts. No manuscript earlier than the 14th century. Probably translated from a Greek translation. More than twenty Old Bulgarian manuscripts and fragments, dated from the 14th to 18th centuries AD.|||Probably late 1st century CE; perhaps as early as 1st century BCE, perhaps as late as the 10th century CE. Original language likely Hebrew or Aramaic, translated into Greek, then Slavonic.|||Not canonical in any tradition. Regarded as Old Testament Pseudepigrapha.|||Describes the ascent of Enoch through the seven heavens. Contains ethical teachings, cosmological revelations, and instructions for the righteous.|||Charlesworth, J. H., ed. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 1. Doubleday, 1983.|||MacAskill, G. The Slavonic Apocalypse of Enoch. Mohr Siebeck, 2013.|||Andersen, F. I. "2 (Slavonic Apocalypse of) Enoch." In OTP 1:91–221.|||2 Enoch — Early Jewish Writings|https://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/2enoch.html|Full translation and scholarly resources.;; 2 Enoch — Wikipedia|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Enoch|Background and scholarly discussion.|||" And I saw the eight heavens, and the ninth heaven, and the tenth heaven." — 2 Enoch 20:3