{"product_id":"book-1oox","title":"The Book of Enoch and the Ethiopian Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe New Testament quotes a book most Christians have never read. The Dead Sea Scrolls proved it was real. One church never stopped reading it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe letter of Jude quotes 1 Enoch by name as prophetic Scripture. Eleven Aramaic manuscripts of the same text were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. And yet most Christians have never heard of it - because the Western church gradually stopped copying it, and the text disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church never stopped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fifteen centuries, the monks of Tigray and Lalibela and Lake Tana have read 1 Enoch as the fourteenth book of their Old Testament - canonical Scripture, chanted in the liturgy, integrated into a theology more coherent with the New Testament's own world than the traditions that excluded it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat you have been reading the New Testament without: the pre-existent Son of Man whose portrait in the Similitudes provides the most precise background for Jesus's most frequent self-designation. The canonical definition of Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel. The imprisoned spirits of 1 Peter 3:19 - the bound Watchers of 1 Enoch 10. The social ethics standing behind the Lucan Beatitudes and James 5.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ethiopian church has been right about 1 Enoch for fifteen centuries. The Dead Sea Scrolls agreed. The New Testament agreed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe rest of the world is finally catching up.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":66726063472944,"sku":"BD1oox","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1oox","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}