2 Enoch

The Second Book of Enoch (Slavonic Enoch, or Secrets of Enoch) — an apocalyptic text describing Enoch's ascent through the seven heavens.|||Survives only in Old Slavonic manuscripts (more than twenty Old Bulgarian codices, 14th–18th c.). No manuscript earlier than the 14th century. Probably translated from a Greek translation.|||Probably late 1st century CE. Some scholars argue for an earlier date (1st c. BCE); others push to 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. Important witness to early Jewish mysticism.|||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.|||W. R. Morfill Translation|https://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe003.htm|Public-domain English translation at Sacred Texts.;; Early Jewish Writings — 2 Enoch|https://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/2enoch.html|Scholarly index with translation.|||" And I saw the eight heavens, and the ninth heaven, and the tenth heaven." — 2 Enoch 20:3