The Book of Enoch Explained

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What is the Book of Enoch?
Extra special thanks to David Malamud, who co-wrote and researched this episode. Follow him on Twitter: @dmmalamud

Bibliography:

Asale, Bruk Ayele. “THE LEGACY OF 1 ENOCH ON ETHIOPIAN LITERATURE.” Journal for Semitics 23.2 (2014): 423–42.

Baynes, Leslie. “Enoch and Jubilees in the Canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.” A Teacher for All Generations (2 Vols.) (2012): 799–818.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, Caner K. Dagli, Maria Massi Dakake, Joseph E. B. Lumbard, and Mohammed Rustom. The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary. Reprint edition. New York, NY: HarperOne, 2017.

Nickelsburg, George W. E., and James C. VanderKam, eds. 1 Enoch: A New Translation: Based on the Hermeneia Commentary. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004.

Nickelsburg, George W. E. 1 Enoch 1 : A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch. Hermeneia--a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2001.
Andrei Orlov, Metatron as the Deity: Lesser YHWH
Reed, Annette Yoshiko. Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Reeves, John C., and Reed, Annette Yoshiko. Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Volume I, Sources from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. First ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

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[kirubelfikru]

The Ethiopian church deserves credit for preserving the full version of the book and for accepting it as canon for 2000 years

[DevinDTV]

Enoch must have been an established figure before the writing of Genesis. There's no way they just offhandedly remarked that "God took him" without the reader being expected to already know the full story.

[doidrs]

The person who came up with the name Metatron deserves a raise.

[krevin]

Enoch is a fascinating book. Reading the Biblical texts can be a surreal experience because it mentions drastic events, that today we would chronicle in detail, very offhandedly as if they aren’t worth recording.

[charlestownsend]

Metatron sounds like a transformer, every time he mentions metatron all I see is a biblical transformer.

[ReflexVE]

I read Enoch when I was much younger and what struck me was the parallels between the watchers and the Greek gods in their interactions with humans. Teaching, corrupting, interbreeding and playing at warfare with humans or demigods as champions or pawns. Back when I believed these things literally it seemed like a potential explanation for other religions at the time, now of course it is more obviously due to cultural contact and the spread of ideas around the Mediterranean.

[DeepDarkSamurai]

There's a very enochian figure in ancient sumerian texts who very well can be the source of the later sons of angels and men parts of the book of Enoch, in fact a lot of the poetics match it very highly

[robbalink]

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[GirladyLocks]

I do not believe that the Book of Enoch was a "spin-off" at all! In fact, there is evidence that it is much older than the Bible and was already a widely known part of literature when the Bible was written, hence there was no reason to elaborate when it was briefly mentioned in the Bible. The writer assumed everyone already knew what he was talking about, probably because they did! It is a complex piece of literature that should be respected.

[Schralenberger]

Bear in mind an important fact when reading Enoch: Firstly there are three books of Enoch. In antiquity they spoke of only one. Scholars are fairly sure that there are two different authors. The author of the first book, written before Christ. And the author of both the second, and the third books, dated to after Christ. They compare phrasing and language that differs between the two. As well as language usage in the different eras. When purchasing an edition of "The book of Enoch.", you usually will have all three books, in the one volume.

[woodshed_moments]

It makes sense that Sadducees who were more concerned about preserving tradition rejected the supernatural, therefore Enoch would have been disqualified simply because it alluded to the supernatural.

Interesting presentation

[wilmaliles]

Im reading it now and it ties everything together.there are other books not released yet.the bible says to seek knowledge and its all coming to us now. Thank yahwey.

[benjicald]

The Book of Enoch was originally so popular because it was LITERALLY lore for the Bible

[HolyKoolaid]

Am I the only one who hummed, "More than meets the eye!" When he said that Enoch transformed into Metatron?

[JudasMaccabeus]

3 Enoch is Hekhalot Literature which is the pre cursor to the later Kabbalistic form of mysticism. It’s a very tough read if your not familiar with OT allegory and such.

[asmithii]

I've read the book. It's very intriguing. Watchers is great, parables great, lumaires all good stuff. It fills in a lot of gaps that my mind would wander on from reading the Bible. I might go read it again.

[ruthmeow]

"Spin-off literature." The scholarly way of saying "fan fiction".

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[ThrillaLive]

How can someone reject a book from out the Bible? That doesn't seem like something we're allowed to do.

[thatoneoshawott]

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