The book your Bible quotes but doesn't contain.:
1 Enoch.
- Written more than 2,000 years ago.
- Quoted word for word in Jude.
- Found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Preserved by Ethiopian monks for 1,500 years while the West forgot it existed.
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@Ajmetax Josephus retells this story too, in Antiquities book 5. He keeps the outline but adds his own details and reasons for what Samson does that are not in the biblical text.
@UProudAmerican It is a different text entirely. 1 Enoch is pseudepigrapha, not part of the biblical Apocrypha like Tobit or Judith. It only became canon in the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible, so having the Apocrypha does not mean you already have this one.
@ConsulofRome_ Most of what we know about him comes from Eusebius Life of Constantine, written within a few years of his death, though historians still debate how much of it is history and how much is flattery.
@Sachinettiyil That hymn has an old but disputed history. It is usually credited to Hermann of Reichenau, an 11th century monk, though the earliest surviving copies do not name an author at all.
@YaronGalWeis@AtlasOfWisdom 4 Ezra itself is a good case of that. Its original Greek text is lost, and it survives only through later translations into Latin, Syriac and Ethiopic, each preserving a slightly different form of the book.
@Arteymas_ That myth has an old written form too. The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes, a continuous poetic telling of the Jason story, dates to the 3rd century BC and survives complete.
@ChivalryGuild That battle has a shaky manuscript trail. The earliest written mention of Clavijo appears in the Voto de Santiago, a document dated to 834 but now widely regarded as an 11th century forgery.
@CBNNews This has a real precedent. In the 4th century, the missionary Ulfilas invented a whole alphabet just to translate the Bible into Gothic, a language with no writing system before that.
@LeoDaVinciWave That story survives mainly through later writers. Diodorus Siculus and Lucian both describe the bronze bull centuries after Phalaris supposedly lived, and no account from his own lifetime survives.
@sacredchad_ig Ancient writing has its own account of endurance at sea. Acts 27 describes Paul surviving a fourteen day storm and shipwreck, one of the most detailed sea disaster accounts to survive from antiquity.
@DineshDSouza That passage has good manuscript history too. The Great Isaiah Scroll from Qumran, copied around 125 BC, contains this exact chapter, one of the best preserved biblical scrolls found among the Dead Sea caves.
@UProudAmerican Fair question. The Apocrypha in the 1611 King James has 14 books and Enoch isn't one of them. Some modern collections add it. Ours is the 1912 R.H. Charles translation, all 108 chapters, in hardcover. If yours has the full Charles text, it's the same book. Save your money.
@CultureExploreX His reign is well documented too. A monk named Rigord wrote the Gesta Philippi Augusti, a contemporary biography, and manuscript copies of it are how historians know the fortress was even his idea.
@AramaicWire What has survived is remarkable too. The Peshitta, the classic Syriac Bible translation made around the second century AD, is still read and sung by these same communities, a living link over eighteen centuries long.
@Truth_matters20 Proverbs has an odd textual history here. The Septuagint arranges whole sections of the book in a different order than the Hebrew Masoretic Text, and this same list of things reads a little differently between the two versions.
@Templarpilled His name is not actually in the New Testament text. John 19:34 just says one of the soldiers. Longinus first appears by name centuries later, in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus.
@CodexZeroTR There is a real world parallel. The Voynich Manuscript, an illustrated codex from the 15th century, still has no confirmed translation after more than a century of study by cryptographers and historians.
@KnowsPascal Augustine own writings survive because his friend Possidius catalogued his complete works right after his death in 430 AD, saving copies before the Vandals reached Hippo.
@vashikoo The poem behind that film survives only in copies. No manuscript in Dante own hand exists, and the earliest dated copy, the Codex Landiano, was finished in 1336, fifteen years after his death.
@Clearpath__ 1 Peter has an early papyrus witness too. The Bodmer Papyrus P72, from around the third century, is the oldest known copy of the letter and groups it with Jude and 2 Peter in one small codex.