Historia Aethiopica (1681 Ludolf), book
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Historia Aethiopica (1681) is a book by Hiob Ludolf.
Abstract
Ludolf discussed rumors of an Ethiopic version of 1 Enoch but was skeptical about its existence. In particular proved that the ms. purchased in 1633 by French intellectual and collector Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc was not a copy of the "lost" Book of Enoch but a theological commentary containing merely citations of and allusions to the Book of Enoch. He concluded that a Book of Enoch never existed.
Editions
Published in Frankfurt, Germany: 1681.