There is no transcript in ancient Hebrew. It is viewed by many scholars to have been written during the Second Temple Hellenistic period.
jamma_mamma on
Why did 16 other books also get left out?
It’s a work of fiction, that’s why.
Lukas_woodler on
For the same reason they left out the gnostic texts.
Slow_Celebration1328 on
Because it goes into detail about the non human entities who run the planet, who Enoch calls “the watchers”.
WildPurplePlatypus on
I can only speak to the orthodox perspective, but this is pre flood. Its not likely that this writing survived the flood, so the church fathers cannot be sure that it was actually written by Enoch. Thats the base reason.
However, there are church fathers who argue that Noah had a scroll of this book on the ark and it survived in this way, or orally. There are a couple references to the book of enoch in the bible canon.
Canon in orthodox just means “read in church” the other books are the apocryphal texts, meaning “to be read privately”
Prudent_Sherbet_1065 on
Too racy
Captainteledad on
Because Enoch is enough
Civil_Durian_785 on
The Books of Enoch were not included in most Jewish and Christian biblical canons mainly because they were regarded as pseudepigraphal: they are attributed to the ancient Enoch, but modern scholarship dates them to much later Jewish apocalyptic circles, especially the Second Temple period. 1 Enoch was influential and is even echoed or quoted in Jude 14–15, so early Christians clearly knew it. But quotation or influence did not automatically make a book canonical. Most Jewish and Christian communities did not receive Enoch as Scripture, though the Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox traditions did preserve it as canonical.
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There is no transcript in ancient Hebrew. It is viewed by many scholars to have been written during the Second Temple Hellenistic period.
Why did 16 other books also get left out?
It’s a work of fiction, that’s why.
For the same reason they left out the gnostic texts.
Because it goes into detail about the non human entities who run the planet, who Enoch calls “the watchers”.
I can only speak to the orthodox perspective, but this is pre flood. Its not likely that this writing survived the flood, so the church fathers cannot be sure that it was actually written by Enoch. Thats the base reason.
However, there are church fathers who argue that Noah had a scroll of this book on the ark and it survived in this way, or orally. There are a couple references to the book of enoch in the bible canon.
Canon in orthodox just means “read in church” the other books are the apocryphal texts, meaning “to be read privately”
Too racy
Because Enoch is enough
The Books of Enoch were not included in most Jewish and Christian biblical canons mainly because they were regarded as pseudepigraphal: they are attributed to the ancient Enoch, but modern scholarship dates them to much later Jewish apocalyptic circles, especially the Second Temple period. 1 Enoch was influential and is even echoed or quoted in Jude 14–15, so early Christians clearly knew it. But quotation or influence did not automatically make a book canonical. Most Jewish and Christian communities did not receive Enoch as Scripture, though the Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox traditions did preserve it as canonical.