-Maccabees:
The Maccabees books are listed in the Apocrypha.
They give a history of the tribe
of Judah and the many events which occurred after the sacred
canon.
The Maccabees was the name of a noted family of this tribe. They are not
mentioned in the KJV
Bible. The Maccabees were especially heroic and successful in a struggle
for the nation of Judah's independence against the Old Testament antichrist
and persecutor, Antiochus Epiphanes, of whom Daniel foretells:.Daniel
8:11-14. Barnes
Notes: In 1Maccabees 2:60 is recorded his dying counsels to his
sons with reference to the war they were now to carry on. His son Judas
'the Maccabee', succeeded him in B.C.E.
166 as the leader in directing the war of independence, which was carried
on with great heroism on the part of those of Judah who utterly
defeated the Syrians.
When Antiochus
IV Epiphanes was expelled from Egypt by the Romans, he vented his anger,
attempting to abolish those worshiping
at the temple in Jerusalem, putting multitudes to death in B.C.E.
168.
An aging priest named Mattathias
the Asmonean, rallied together the national party and his son Judas, surnamed
Maccabeus, succeeded in defeating their enemies and for a time a degree
of national freedom was enjoyed. He was succeeded by his brother, but the
country soon after became subject to Rome. Their history is given in Josephus
and in the Apocryphal Books of the Maccabees.
Textus Receptus:.latin
for 'received' or 'accepted', meaning a text of a work that is generally
accepted as being genuine or original.
The use of the term comes
from the Latin preface to a 1633 edition of the New
Testament by the Dutch printers Elzevir:.'You
have the text now received.(or,
recognized).by
all, in which we give nothing altered or corrupted'.
-Talmud:.from
about 150 A.D.
the
Sanhedrin
settled here and established rabbinical schools, which rose to great celebrity.
Here the Jerusalem.(or
Palestinian).Talmud
was compiled
about the beginning of the fifth century. It is a book having mostly contradictory
text to the Bible and only read with extreme caution.
To this same rabbinical
school also we are indebted for the Masora, a."body
of traditions which transmitted the readings of the Hebrew text of the
Old Testament and preserved, by means of the vowel system, the pronunciation
of the Hebrew. In its original form and in all manuscripts, the Hebrew
is written without vowels; hence, when it ceased to be a spoken language,
the importance of knowing what vowels to insert between the consonants.
This is supplied by the Masora and hence these vowels are called the 'Masoretic
vowel points'."
The Book of Enoch.also
called.Ethiopic
Book Of Enoch.
The Book of Enoch.along
with many other books,
is not included in any canon
of scripture.
What's called Theomatics
seems to have obviated
its inclusion.
Is Theomatics accurate? Some say yes, others no. If accurate, is it then
of God, that being with no twists? Again some feel so and others not. Most
feel that the plain simple truths of God are plain enough, that is Does
God Exist, is the Bible true, is Christ real?
However, are the workings
of mathematical.algorithms,
being of the multiverse God made, been therefor
always there awaiting discovery to take us deeper into truth? Can the
light of the gospel alone do this? Is it enough?.John
6:35 "And Emmanuel said unto them, I am the bread of life. He that
comes to me shall never hunger and he that believes on me shall never thirst."
John
8:12 "Then spake Emmanuel again unto them, saying, I am the light of
the world. He that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have
the light of life."
The only complete extant
version of The Book of Enoch is an Ethiopic.(Ethiopian).translation
of a previous Greek translation made in Palestine
from the original
Hebrew or Aramaic.
Enoch, the seventh patriarch
in the book of Genesis,
was the subject of abundant apocryphal
literature, especially during the Hellenistic
period of Judaism.(3rd
century B.C.E.
to 3rd century A.D.).
At first revered only for his piety,
Enoch
was later believed to be the recipient of secret knowledge from God. This
portrait of Enoch as visionary was influenced by the Babylonian.tradition
of the 7th antediluvian
king, Enmenduranna, who was linked to the sun God and believed he received
divine revelations. The story of Enoch reflects many such features of the
Babylonian myth.
The Book of Enoch
is a compilation of several separate works, most of which are apocalyptic.(meaning
widespread devastation or ultimate doom).
Its oldest portion is the 'Apocalypse of Weeks', written shortly before
the Maccabean uprising of 167 B.C.E. against the
Seleucids.
Other sections, especially those dealing with astronomical and cosmological
speculations,
are difficult to date. Because of its views on messianism.(belief
in the Messiah),
celibacy
and the fate of the soul after death, parts of Enoch may have originated
with or been influenced by the Essene
community of Judeans
at Qumran. However, no fragments of the longest portion of the work, chapters
37–71, were found among the Qumran writings. This has led scholars to theorize
that this section was perhaps written in the 2nd century A.D. by someone
unknown who wished to imbue his own eschatological
speculations with the authority of Enoch
and added his work to four older apocryphal Enoch writings.
The Book of Enoch
was accepted by some in the Christian Church but later excluded from the
biblical canon by the cabal
in their hiding of true history by various means they use. This book is
only one of 711 that
they tucked away out of sight in the Vatican archives. The book has a syncretic
blending of Iranian, Greek, Chaldean
and Egyptian elements.....comprised
with information from Encyclopedia Britannica.