The Ten “Weeks” of History
1 Enoch 93:3–10; 91:11–17
3rd Century BCE–1st Century CE
Chapter 93
3Then Enoch took up his discourse and said: I was born the seventh of the First Week, while justice and righteousness still endured. 4And thereafter in the Second Week great wickedness shall arise, and deceit spring up; and in it [the Second Week] the First End will occur, and in it a man shall be saved. And after it has ended, oppression…
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In this passage from 1 Enoch, history is divided into ten periods called “weeks” that run from Enoch’s own day to the end of history and the coming of the kingdom of God. Because the manuscripts of this text are disordered and the text has been reconstructed, the chapter numbers are out of order.
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