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What Happens in the Book of Enoch? The book of Enoch is an ancient Hebrew apocalyptic religious text. There are three books of Enoch, their contents discussing demons, giants, angels, and why the flood was morally necessary. None of the books of Enoch are included in the traditional Christian Bible.
The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch; [a] Hebrew: סֵפֶר חֲנוֹךְ, Sēfer Ḥănōḵ; Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ, Maṣḥafa Hēnok) is an ancient Jewish apocalyptic religious text, ascribed by tradition to the patriarch Enoch who was the father of Methuselah and the great-grandfather of Noah.
The Book of Enoch is any of several pseudepigraphal works that attribute themselves to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah; that is, Enoch son of Jared (Genesis 5:18). A piece of ancient literature is a pseudepigraphon if it makes false claims as to authorship.
So, what is the Book of Enoch, when was it written, by whom, and why is it not in the Christian Bible (except for the Ethiopic church, in which case, the question might be why is it included in theirs)? The Book of Enoch is a pseudepigraphal Jewish text of the second or third century BC.
One of the more conspicuously absent members of the list is the Book of Enoch, an ancient Hebrew text purportedly penned by the great-grandfather of Noah and seventh generation descendant of Adam. Enoch lived a short life by Old Testament standards, giving a "Good day, sir" to his mortal coil at just 365 years young.
From the Bible, we know that Enoch was Adam’s great-great-great-great grandson (and Noah’s great grandfather) who lived a holy and faithful life to the Lord. Enoch is only one of two people taken straight to heaven, escaping death altogether.
The Book of Enoch exerted a strong and widespread influence on both Jewish and Christian lit. It appears that the writers of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, the Assumption of Moses, 2 Baruch and 4 Ezra quoted from it.
But what is the Book of Enoch and what does it tell us about heaven, angels and demons? Why was it removed from the Bible and is now apocryphal? What did Jesus say about it? Here's what you...
The Book of Enoch is one of the most famous examples of a book that falsely claims to be written by a Biblical figure. Like many such texts, its ideas sound interesting at first but do...
Besides the passages from the Book of Noah, five treatises are included in the Book of Enoch. The hero of all of them is the biblical Enoch. The first treatise (chapters 1–36) speaks about the fall of the angels, who rebelled before the Flood, and describes Enoch’s celestial journeys, in which divine secrets were revealed to him.