Book of Noah

The Book of Noah — a lost Jewish work known only from fragments preserved within 1 Enoch and later literature. Concerns the birth of Noah, the Flood, and the covenant.|||No independent manuscript survives. Fragments preserved in 1 Enoch 106–107, Genesis Apocryphon (1QapGen), and Jubilees.|||Composed c. 2nd century BCE.|||Not canonical in any tradition.|||Legendary history of Noah, his miraculous birth, and the covenant after the Flood. Important for understanding Second Temple Jewish expansions of Genesis.|||VanderKam, J. C. Enoch and the Growth of an Apocalyptic Tradition. Catholic Biblical Association, 1984.|||Nickelsburg, G. W. E. 1 Enoch 1: A Commentary. Fortress Press, 2001.|||Charlesworth, J. H., ed. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 2. Doubleday, 1985.|||Read fragments within 1 Enoch|https://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe015.htm|Fragments embedded in the Book of Enoch.;; Early Jewish Writings|https://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/|Indexed translations of related texts.|||" And Noah was born, and his flesh was white as snow, and his eyes we're like the rays of the sun." — 1 Enoch 106:2 (paraphrase)