Chronological List of Enochic Sources

Chronology of Enochic and Noahic Literature
The Story of Ahikar
300-200BCE Aramaic Levi : Priestly Noah tradition.
Let us consider for a moment this line of descent and transmission which is set forth in 4QTestQahat and Jubilees 21. Except for the single manuscript from Cave 4, no other traces of the Testament of Qahat have been found at Qumran or elsewhere. Nonetheless, Testament of Qahat stresses a cardinal point, the descent of priestly teaching from Abraham and eventually, according to Aramaic Levi, from Noah. The same idea is to be found in works that circulated more widely. One of the main issues in Aramaic Levi is the investiture of Levi as priest and the transmission to him of the priestly teaching about the sacrificial cult. Levi, having been invested and anointed, is taught by Isaac (##12-13): yr)# )ym# y)rml Nwyl( l)l Nyhk )n) yd (dy ydkwtwnhk Nyd yty )pl)lw hdqpl) "When he learned (realized?) that I was priest of the Most High God, of the Lord of Heaven, he began to instruct and to teach me the law of priesthood."
300-200BCE
Around 200 BCE Astronomical Enoch - 1 Enoch 72-82: 2 Enoch has interest in
cosmology.
The angel Pravuil (P)/ Vretil (N),/ Vrevoil (J)/ Vereveil (A) explains to Enoch for 30 days and 30 nights and he writes 366 books
300-250 LXX (Deu 32:35): 2n Enoch appears to be using the LXX for its chronology and not MT (Gen 4-5).
250-200 BCE The Book of the Watchers- 1 Enoch 1-36 (6-11) Book of Noah?
Parallels with Slavonic Enoch,. Watchers in 2 En 2nd and 5th heaven Enoch meets them and they ask for his intercession. To the first group he seems to refuse. To the Gigori he says that he interceded for the first group and intercedes for them.
Sirach(33: 3-7, 10,1:2, 7:32, 2:4, 39:25, 17:3,5. ) : A wisdom book which 2 En appears to use according to Charles. The images of the high priest in Sirach 50 are part of Orlovs argument that Noah was a priest and that 2 En by using the image of light and blessing the Lord as a child for Methusalam and Melchizedek was being anti Noachic
195 BCE End of the 390 years era of wrath, Damascus document (Wise, Begg, Cook, 1999,52)
175 BCE Jason buys the High Priesthood. Onias III loses it.
175 BCE End of the 20 years wandering in the wilderness, Teacher of Righteousness raised up. Onias IV heads to Egypt and builds a temple in Leontopolis.
172 BCE Menelaus the first non Zadokite
170 BCE Epistle of Enoch 1 Enoch 91-108 Details of Noah’s birth as a sign of new
things: 2nd Enoch does not cover Noah birth but Melchizedek, the priest for all priests.
170 BCE Book of Dreams 1 Enoch 83-90 (Animal Apocalypse): Over view of history in where characters are pictures as Animals so it is called Animal Apocalypse: 2nd Enoch has no interest in history. There are a number of prophecies regarding the coming flood. Orlov holds that Noah’s high status as an angelomorphic figure similar to Moses in this book was part of the trigger for the "antiNoahic polemics"
Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs: A whole list of parallels is cited by Charles
(1913,429-430) (Levi 3:2), Dan (5:5,6), Naph (4:1-2), Sim (5:4), Ben (9), Jud (18:1-2)
200BC- Jubilees: Refers to Book of Noah, Jubilees 10:1-15, Jub 21. This is one of the
sources of the priestly Noah tradition.
200-100BCE Genesis Apocryphon: Details of Noah birth as a sign similar to 1 Enoch. Orlov wants to demonstrate that 2 En is a book dealing with similar issues to this book. And belongs like this Book and the Epistle of Enoch to the second temple debates about priestly successions and animal sacrifices.(Orlov 2004, 2). Bottrich agrees with the date but disagrees with the thesis beleveing much of it to be based on dated positions. (Bottrich, 2001)
152 BCE The first Hasmonan high priest Jonathan, some disagree.
150 BCE Sybilline Oracles 2:75
The Wisdom of Solomon (7:17,18): 2 En has parallels with this book also according to Charles.
50 BCE- 50 CE Book of Parables 1 Enoch 37-71 (Book of Noah 39:1-2a; 54:7-55:2
Not in Dead Sea scrolls and Andersen didn’t see traces of Parables in Slavonic
Enoch. Milik (1976) however says 2 Enoch saw 1 Enoch in its final form as a Pentateuch
37-4BC Herod the Great takes over. Herod stops anointing the high priests. High priestly succession is by choice of Herod and investiture of eight garments of clothing.
Turn of the century Philo: De Instit, De Somno, etc: Charles cites a number of parallels with 2 En
30-70 CE Slavonic Enoch 1-68: Charles latest estimate of the date: No fragments of Original whatsoever. Charles held it was of Alexandrian origin. Bottrich (2001) agrees that it has Egyptian origin and was written by an Alexandrian Jew as part of the Diaspora.
Bottrich and Orlov hold to a second temple period date for the whole of 2 Enoch. Charles saw 69-73 as an addendum by a Christian Heretic. Milik (1976) and Bow (2000) still see it as an appendix.
60-70 CE Hebrews gives a rendition on Melchizedek which is closest to the features of Melchizedek in 2 Enoch 71-72.
30-100CE Matthew (15:9, 5:34, 35, 37, 7:20, 14:27, 25:34), John (14, 2,15), Colossians (1:16), Ephesians (4:25), Hebrews (11:3), Revelation (1:16, 9:1, 4:6, 10:56)
Uncertain
1-50 CE Assumption of Moses
50-100 Psalms of Solomon (Condemn Hasmoneans and look to Davidic Messiah
1-100 CE Apocalypse of Abraham
1-100 CE Testament of Abraham
1-100 CE The Lives of the Prophets
100CE Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
100CE –150 Greek Apocalypse of (3) Baruch
The Martyrdom of Isaiah
Ascension of Isaiah (This has 7 heavens and an ascension.
200-300 CE Origen De Princip 1:3:2
Clement of Alexandria: Stroma (5:11:77) cites Apocalypse of Zephanyah
300-400 CE Apocryphal tradition of Melchizedek probably used by one redactor of 2 Enoch, noted by Bottrich. See Robinson ( JSJ, Vol 18:1)
400-500 CE The Book of Adam and Eve (29:4-5, 31:4, 31:2, Charles notes parallels
Apocalypse of Moses (36:1-3)
Apocalypse of Paul Charles noted Parallels
600-700 J.K Fotheringhams date for 2 Enoch
700-800 J Miliks date for 2 Enoch. It was written by a Byzantine Monk and shows this with the succession from Patriarch to Nephew as was the case with succession in the Eastern Orthodox Church leadership and the Holy and Apostolic church of the East. 3 Bishops would have to be present for the anointing of the new bishop.
9th –10th cent Cyrillus and Methodosius create Slavonic alphabet and begin to translate Greek texts.
12-13th cen ASD Maunders date for 2 Enoch. It is a Bogomoil production.
14th cent Earliest manuscript of 2 Enoch Meriloe Pravednoe