Question: Did medieval/modern scientists know about the book of Enoch? How did they feel about its scientific revelations?
Wikipedia: The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch;[note 1] Hebrew: סֵפֶר חֲנוֹךְ, Sēfer Ḥănōḵ; Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ, Maṣḥafa Hēnok) is an ancient Hebrew apocalyptic religious text, ascribed by tradition to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah.[1][2] Enoch contains unique material on the origins of demons and Nephilim, why some angels fell from heaven, an explanation of why the Genesis flood was morally necessary, and prophetic exposition of the thousand-year reign of the Messiah. Three books are traditionally attributed to Enoch, including the distinct works 2 Enoch and 3 Enoch, although none of the three books are considered canonical scripture by the majority of Jewish or Christian bodies.
The older sections I Enoch (mainly in the Book of the Watchers) of the text are estimated to date from about 300–200 BC, and the latest part (Book of Parables) probably to 100 BC.[3]
Various Aramaic fragments found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as Koine Greek and Latin fragments, are proof that the Book of Enoch was known by Jews and early Near Eastern Christians. This book was also quoted by some 1st and 2nd century authors as in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. Authors of the New Testament were also familiar with some content of the story.[4] A short section of 1 Enoch (1:9) is cited in the New Testament Epistle of Jude, Jude 1:14–15, and is attributed there to "Enoch the Seventh from Adam" (1 Enoch 60:8), although this section of 1 Enoch is a midrash on Deuteronomy 33:2. Several copies of the earlier sections of 1 Enoch were preserved among the Dead Sea Scrolls.[2]
It is not part of the biblical canon used by Jews, apart from Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews). While the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church consider the Book of Enoch as canonical, other Christian groups regard it as non-canonical or non-inspired, but may accept it as having some historical or theological interest.
It is today wholly extant only in the Ethiopian Ge'ez language. For this and other reasons, the traditional Ethiopian belief is that the original language of the work was Ge'ez, whereas modern scholars argue that it was first written in either Aramaic or Hebrew, the languages first used for Jewish texts; Ephraim Isaac suggests that the Book of Enoch, like the Book of Daniel, was composed partially in Aramaic and partially in Hebrew.[5]: 6 No Hebrew version is known to have survived.
Do people believe in the Book of Enoch?
While the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church consider the Book of Enoch as canonical, other Christian groups regard it as non-canonical or non-inspired, but may accept it as having some historical or theological interest.
Who actually wrote the Book of Enoch?
The 3rd Book of Enoch, the Hebrew Enoch, or 3 Enoch, is a Rabbinic text originally written in Hebrew usually dated to the fifth century CE. Some experts believe it was written by Rabbi Ishmael (second century CE), familiar with both 1 Enoch and 2 Enoch.
Why was the Apocrypha removed from the Bible?
They reasoned that not printing the Apocrypha within the Bible would prove to be less costly to produce. Since that time most modern editions of the Bible and reprinting’s of the King James Bible omit the Apocrypha section. Modern non-Catholic reprinting’s of the Clementine Vulgate commonly omit the Apocrypha section.
Summary: The book of Enoch is controversial because of its content, most of which information is already in the Bible we are all using. However; as Enoch is considered rightly to be one of the early “men (people) of faith” (see Hebrews 11), his so called writings are never referred to until 2–3000 years after his death. That fact alone is very suspicious, and the reading is also not similar to the rest of the Bible. The fact also that the earliest known manuscript is approx. BC 250, and written by a Jewish Rabbi who was tainted against the eventual true Messiah (Christ Jesus Messiah); lends itself to the Jewish effort to thwart Almighty God’s Great Gift of Salvation in Jesus, not too long before His Birth! That effort is ongoing, and is again highlighted in Acts 28 25–28, (Isa. 6:9–10), which was declared by the Apostle Paul, when the Sanhedrin again rejected God’s call to them, to become His True witnesses worldwide! They will not however escape a third time, as the prophecy in Zech. 12:10 shows!
It is considered that Enoch may be the second Witness together with Elijah, in Revelation!
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