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The Book of Enoch as a Pseudepigraphal Work

Today's question is, what is the book of Enoch and should it be in the Bible? In this video I'll answer that question from a biblical perspective. And afterwards, as always, I'll share some helpful resources, so stick around until the.

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The book of Enoch is any of several pseudepigraphal works, that is, falsely attributed works, texts whose claimed authorship is unfounded, that attribute themselves to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, that is, Enoch, son of Jared, mentioned in Genesis 5.

Jude’s Quotation from Enoch and the Limits of Citation

Enoch is also one of two people in the Bible taken up to heaven without dying. The other, being Elijah, as the Bible says, and Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him, Genesis 5 .24. Most commonly, the phrase, book of Enoch, refers to first Enoch, which is wholly extant only in the Ethiopic language.

The biblical book of Jude quotes from the book of Enoch in verses 14 and 15. Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesies about these men, see, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of His holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all that all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way.

And of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him. But this does not mean the book of Enoch is inspired by God and should be in the Bible. Jude's quote is not the only quote in the Bible from a non-biblical source.

The apostle Paul quotes Epimenides in Titus 1 .12, but that does not mean we should give any additional authority to Epimenides' writings. The same is true with Jude in verses 14 -15. Jude is quoting from the book of Enoch.

That does not indicate the entire book of Enoch is inspired or even true. All it means is that particular verse is true. It is interesting to note that no scholar believes the book of Enoch to have truly been written by Enoch in the Bible.

Enoch, Jude 14, and the Tradition Behind the Saying

Enoch was seven generations from Adam prior to the flood in Genesis 5 verses 1 -24. Evidently, though, this was generally something that Enoch prophesied, or the Bible would not have attributed it to him.

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men.

Jude 14.

This saying of Enoch was evidently handed down by tradition and eventually recorded in the book of Enoch. We should treat the book of Enoch, and other books like it, in the same manner we do the other apocryphal writings.

Why the Apocrypha Is Not Inspired Scripture

Some of what the apocrypha says is true and correct, but at the same time, much of it is false and historically inaccurate. If you read these books, you have to treat them as interesting but fallible historical documents, not the inspired, authoritative Word of God.

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