OK, I think I have it figured out.  My quotes and memory are from I Enoch:
at a site for a prof. at Notre Dame:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sd/enoch.html

we have the following:

A. 1 Enoch: 1 Enoch, preserved in a full, 108-chapter form in Ethiopic,
consists of five parts and one appended chapter. It originated in Aramaic
(perhaps Hebrew for chaps. 37-71), was translated into Greek, and from Greek
into Ethiopic. Some have argued that there was no intermediate Greek level
between the Aramaic and the Ethiopic, but this seems less likely. The five
booklets that comprise the book range in date from perhaps before 200 BCE to
the end of the first century BCE or possibly somewhat later. 1. Chaps. 1-36
The Book of the Watchers may date from the third century BCE. Parts of its
text have been identified on several copies from Qumran cave 4; the earliest
fragmentary manuscript (4QEnocha) dates, according to the editor J.T. Milk,
to between 200 and 150 BCE. All Qumran copies are in the Aramaic language.

B. 2 Enoch: The book has survived only in Old Slavonic, with two recensions
attested in the manuscripts. It does appear to contain Jewish material and
is thought by some scholars to have been written in Hebrew, translated into
Greek, and from Greek into Old Slavonic. Others maintain that the author
wrote it in Greek....In dealing with 2 Enoch, it is important to take note
of the summary words that F.I. Andersen, who translated 2 Enoch for The Old
Testament Pseudepigrapha, has written: "In every respect 2 Enoch remains an
enigma. So long as the date and location remain unknown, no use can be made
of it for historical purposes. The present writer is inclined to place the
book-or at least its original nucleus-early rather than late; and in a
Jewish rather than a Christian community. But by the very marginal if not
deviant character of their beliefs, its users could have been gentile
converts to moral monotheism based on belief in the antediluvian God of the
Bible as Creator, but not as the God of Abraham or Moses." (OTP 1.97) While
a date of approximately 100 CE is sometimes given for it, this remains quite
uncertain; in fact, J.T. Milik has argued that it was written by a Christian
monk in the ninth or tenth century CE.

So, I think I have a hypothesis consistent with what we have both provided.
I Enoch is older than the New Testiment, and II Enoch is of uncertain
age..perhaps consistant with the writing of the New Testiment.  II Enoch
does show the Julian calendar, but I Enoch doesn't.  And, its worth noting
that the quotes are from I Enoch.

Dan M.





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