Apocrypha
- Not necessary to translate.
Notes
For the purposes of this page, I am interested in all apocryphal texts.
The Book of Enoch
Scholars believe it originated during the second century B.C.
The Book of Jasher
I have a copy purporting to be the Book of Jasher, published by J.H. Parry & Company, 1887. (It's a 2000 printing.) The Wikipedia article asserts that the book has not been found, but never makes reference to this version, which Joseph B. Lumpkin seems to believe to non-fraudulent. The discussion on the Wikipedia page, however is mixed. Apparently, having been translated so long ago, the original it was translated from is not extant and some take it to be questionable because it was translated by Mormons.
Personally, I do see some Mormon cultural bias in the translation. eg. "Helpmeet" is not a word, and it doesn't mean anything. To join those two words into one demonstrates a fundamental inability to understand what they mean. It is a pet peeve of mine that few people of my faith seem to recognize this. That a translator could be so daft as to put this in their translation from an original text seems almost beyond comprehension.
The Book of Jubilees
A book claiming to have been written by Moses, but probably penned between 200 B.C. and 100 B.C.