Enoch (1 Enoch)

The book the rest of Christendom lost and Ethiopia kept. Originally written in Aramaic centuries before Messiah, only the Ethiopian Ge'ez translation preserved the complete text — the Aramaic survives in fragments found among the Dead Sea Scrolls (eleven manuscripts from Qumran Cave 4, 4Q201-212).

Its importance for the believer is not theoretical: Jude 1:14-15 quotes it verbatim — "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all" is 1 Enoch 1:9, and Jude attributes it to "Enoch, the seventh from Adam." Its five sections (the Watchers, the Parables, the Astronomical book, the Dreams, and the Epistle) treat the fallen angels of Genesis 6, the heavenly calendar, and the "Son of Man" — the title Yeshua made His own.

Note: offered for study and reference; churches outside Ethiopia do not consider it canonical.