1 Enoch 9: souls ask heavenly holy ones to bring their case

Intercession source · Request for advocacy · Book of Watchers: 3rd century BCE (scholarly range)

About this date: A broad attributed range; literary setting is not historical verification.

The souls of people harmed by the Watchers ask the holy ones of heaven to bring their cause before the Most High. The archangels then present the matter to God. The petition is explicit, but the work is canonical only in some Christian traditions.

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Sources and further reading

The Book of Enoch (primary)
Public-domain translation of the petition and angelic report.
Westminster: biblical canon (primary)
Named Reformed canon and Apocrypha status.
Ethiopian Orthodox biblical books (secondary)
Names a particular community’s canon; do not conflate Meqabyan with Greek Maccabees.
OCA: Canon of Scripture (secondary)
Institutional account of Eastern Orthodox reception.
Resurrection and the Book of Watchers (secondary)
Scholarship on the Book of Watchers’ compositional setting.

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