https://enoch-book.com/Articles on the Book of Enoch, its characters and its history.en https://enoch-book.com/noah-birth.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/noah-birth.htmlSun, 15 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000In the Book of Enoch, Noah is born white as snow, lights up the house and speaks to God at once. His father Lamech fears the child is not his. https://enoch-book.com/mount-hermon.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/mount-hermon.htmlSun, 15 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000In the Book of Enoch, two hundred angels descend on Mount Hermon and swear an oath there. Why Hermon, what its name means, and what was found on the peak. https://enoch-book.com/archangels.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/archangels.htmlSun, 15 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000In the Book of Enoch the angels have names and jobs: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel and others. Who they are and what each one does. https://enoch-book.com/methuselah.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/methuselah.htmlSun, 15 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000Methuselah lived 969 years, longer than anyone in the Bible. In the Book of Enoch he is also the keeper of Enoch's books and his messenger. https://enoch-book.com/leviathan-behemoth.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/leviathan-behemoth.htmlSun, 15 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000In the Book of Enoch, Leviathan and Behemoth are two monsters separated on one day: the female in the sea, the male in the desert. Their story and fate. https://enoch-book.com/animal-apocalypse.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/animal-apocalypse.htmlSun, 15 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000In the Animal Apocalypse of the Book of Enoch, all of history is told as a fable: the patriarchs are bulls, Israel is sheep, the nations are beasts of prey. https://enoch-book.com/son-of-man.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/son-of-man.htmlSun, 15 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000The Book of Parables in 1 Enoch describes a heavenly figure called the Son of Man: chosen before creation, seated on the throne of glory, judge of kings. https://enoch-book.com/apocalypse-of-weeks.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/apocalypse-of-weeks.htmlSun, 15 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000The Apocalypse of Weeks in the Book of Enoch divides history into ten weeks, from Enoch's day to the judgment of the angels and a new heaven. https://enoch-book.com/woe-to-the-rich.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/woe-to-the-rich.htmlSun, 15 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000In the Epistle of Enoch, the last part of 1 Enoch, the rich and the powerful are met with a string of woes. The charges, and the promise to the poor. https://enoch-book.com/throne-vision.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/throne-vision.htmlSun, 15 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000In chapter 14 of the Book of Enoch, Enoch ascends to heaven, passes through a house of crystal and fire, and sees the throne of glory. https://enoch-book.com/enoch-journeys.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/enoch-journeys.htmlSun, 15 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000In chapters 17 to 36 of the Book of Enoch, Enoch travels to the ends of the earth: a river of fire, a prison for stars, the tree of life and the garden of Eden. https://enoch-book.com/creation-2-enoch.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/creation-2-enoch.htmlSun, 15 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000In 2 Enoch God tells Enoch what came before creation: Adoil, who burst and released the light, Arkhas and the darkness, and Adam, made from seven substances. https://enoch-book.com/animals-2-enoch.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/animals-2-enoch.htmlSun, 15 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000In 2 Enoch, Enoch warns his sons that the souls of animals are kept until the day of judgment, where they will accuse the humans who mistreated them. https://enoch-book.com/summary.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/summary.htmlSun, 15 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000What is in the Book of Enoch? A summary of the five parts of 1 Enoch, from the fallen angels to the Epistle of Enoch, and of 2 Enoch and its ten heavens. https://enoch-book.com/nephilim.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/nephilim.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000Who were the Nephilim? In the Book of Enoch they are giants born to angels and human women, who filled the earth with violence. The full story, with sources. https://enoch-book.com/watchers.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/watchers.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000Two hundred angels swore an oath on Mount Hermon and came down to the daughters of men. Who the Watchers were in the Book of Enoch, and how they were punished. https://enoch-book.com/azazel.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/azazel.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000Azazel taught humankind to forge swords and paint their eyes, and was bound in the desert. Who he was in the Book of Enoch, and how he is tied to the scapegoat. https://enoch-book.com/enoch-the-man.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/enoch-the-man.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000Genesis gives Enoch only a few verses: he walked with God, and he was not. Who Enoch was, why he lived 365 years, and how he became the hero of a literature. https://enoch-book.com/flood.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/flood.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000Genesis blames the Flood on human wickedness. The Book of Enoch adds the missing part: fallen angels, giants who ravaged the earth, and a strange baby named Noah. https://enoch-book.com/forbidden-knowledge.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/forbidden-knowledge.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000Sorcery, astrology, weapons, cosmetics and even writing: in the Book of Enoch the Watchers revealed secrets never meant for humans. What they taught, and why. https://enoch-book.com/why-not-in-bible.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/why-not-in-bible.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000The Book of Enoch was widely read in the Second Temple period, yet it was left out of the Bible. What we know about why, and where it is still scripture today. https://enoch-book.com/lost-and-found.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/lost-and-found.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000For a thousand years Europe knew the Book of Enoch only from quotations. In 1773 a Scottish traveler came back from Ethiopia with three complete copies. https://enoch-book.com/dead-sea-scrolls.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/dead-sea-scrolls.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000Fragments of eleven Aramaic manuscripts of the Book of Enoch were found at Qumran. What the Dead Sea Scrolls reveal about its date, its language and its readers. https://enoch-book.com/goldschmidt.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/goldschmidt.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000In 1892 a 21-year-old in Berlin published the first Hebrew translation of the Book of Enoch, directly from Ge’ez. Who Lazarus Goldschmidt was, and why it matters. https://enoch-book.com/who-wrote.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/who-wrote.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000The Book of Enoch is attributed to Enoch son of Jared, but several Jewish authors wrote it between the 3rd century BCE and the 1st century CE. How we know. https://enoch-book.com/ethiopia.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/ethiopia.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000The Book of Enoch vanished almost everywhere and survived complete only in Ge’ez. Why the Ethiopian church kept it, and what its status there is today. https://enoch-book.com/enoch-1-vs-2.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/enoch-1-vs-2.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +00001 Enoch and 2 Enoch are two separate works: one survived in Ge’ez and tells of the Watchers, the other in Slavonic and describes ten heavens. A comparison. https://enoch-book.com/ten-heavens.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/ten-heavens.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000In 2 Enoch, Enoch rises from heaven to heaven until he stands before God in the tenth. What is in each of the ten heavens, and where the idea comes from. https://enoch-book.com/calendar-364.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/calendar-364.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000The Book of Enoch describes a year of exactly 364 days, in which every festival falls on the same weekday. How it works, who used it, and why it caused a dispute. https://enoch-book.com/reading-guide.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/reading-guide.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +00001 Enoch has 108 chapters in five very different parts. Where to begin, what you can skip on a first reading, and what to know before you open the book. https://enoch-book.com/afterlife.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/afterlife.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000One of the first Jewish sources on the fate of the soul after death: separate chambers for the righteous and for sinners, a day of judgment and a tree of life. https://enoch-book.com/jewish-tradition.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/jewish-tradition.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000Left out of the Bible, the Book of Enoch never left Judaism. Its traces run through the Midrash, the Aramaic Targums, the Hekhalot literature and the Zohar. https://enoch-book.com/new-testament.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/new-testament.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000The Epistle of Jude quotes the Book of Enoch, and its Son of Man predates the Gospels. How Enoch is tied to the New Testament, and why the Church let it go. https://enoch-book.com/metatron.htmlhttps://enoch-book.com/metatron.htmlSat, 14 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000In Jewish mystical tradition Enoch son of Jared rose to heaven and became the angel Metatron. Where the idea comes from, and its roots in 1 and 2 Enoch.