Summary: <br> Book of Enoch by RH Charles (Audio). The Book of Enoch written prior to 300 BC, it is an ancient <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish">Jewish</a> religious work, ascribed by tradition to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_(Biblical_figure)">Enoch</a>, the great-grandfather of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah">Noah</a>, although modern scholars estimate the older sections (mainly in the Book of the Watchers) to date from about 300 BC, and the latest part (Book of Parables) probably to the first century BC<br> <br> <br> <br> Background on the Book of Enoch (wikipedia extract).<br> <br> <br> <br> Judaism: Although evidently widely knownduring the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_Hebrew_Bible_canon">development of the Hebrew Bible canon</a>,1 Enoch was excluded from both the formal canon of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanakh">Tanakh</a> andthe typical canon of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint">Septuagint</a> and therefore, also from the writings knowntoday as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanon">Deuterocanon</a>.One possible reasonfor Jewish rejection of the book might be the textual nature of several earlysections of the book that make use of material from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah">Torah</a>; for example,1 En 1 is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midrash">midrash</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuteronomy">Deuteronomy</a> 33.The content, particularly detailed descriptions of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_angel">fallen angels</a>,would also be a reason for rejection from the Hebrew canon at thisperiod – as illustrated by the comments of Trypho the Jew when debatingwith <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Martyr">Justin Martyr</a> on this subject. Trypho:"The utterances of God are holy, but your expositions are merecontrivances, as is plain from what has been explained by you; nay, evenblasphemies, for you assert that angels sinned and revolted from God."(Dialogue 79)<br> <br> Christianity: By the 4th century, the Book of Enochwas mostly excluded from Christian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_biblical_canons">canons</a>, and it is now regarded as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripture">scripture</a> byonly the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Church">Ethiopian Orthodox Church</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrean_Orthodox_Church">Eritrean Orthodox Church</a>.<br> <br> References in the New Testament: Enoch is referred to as a historicalperson and prophet, and quoted, in <a href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/bibleversefinder/?book=Jude&verse=1:14%E2%80%9315&src=KJV">Jude 1:14–15</a>:<br> And Enoch also, theseventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh withten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all thatare ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodlycommitted, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spokenagainst him.<br> <br> Compare this with Enoch 1:9,translated from the Ethiopic (found also in Qumran scroll 4Q204=4QEnochc ar, col I16–18). <br> <br> And behold! Hecometh with ten thousands of His Saints To execute judgment upon all, And todestroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works of theirungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things whichungodly sinners have spoken against Him.<br> <br> Compare this also with what may bethe original source of 1 En 1:9 in Deuteronomy 33:2: <br> <br> The Lord came fromSinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran; he camefrom the ten thousands of Saints, with flaming fire at his right hand.<br> <br> Under the heading of canonicity, itis not enough to merely demonstrate that something is quoted. Instead, it isnecessary to
