Analytical Essay: The Book Of Enoch

The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish religious work written about the great-grandfather of Noah, Enoch. Today’s scholars estimate the older works to date around 300 BC, and the earliest works to be around first century BC. It is not part of the biblical canon as used by the Jewish religion, apart from Beta Israel. Most Christian denominations and traditions may accept the Books of Enoch as having some historical or theological interest or significance, but they generally regard the Books of Enoch as non-canonical. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church do believe that is is canonical but they are the only Christian groups to do so.

The Book of the Watchers (chs. 1-36). Enoch is a righteous man who has received heavenly visions. The book is a collection of revelations regarding divine judgment. It describes the rebellion of angels. The fallen angels, called "Watchers," have sexual intercourse with human women, who give birth to a race of wicked giants. The giants lay waste to the earth and humanity, and so become the occasion for the flood, in which they are destroyed. But once their demonic spirits are released from their dead bodies, these demons wreak havoc in the world until the end time of judgment.

The Book of the Similitudes (or Parables; chs. 37-71). Enoch again

When he comes back, he teaches moral principles that are similar to those found in another psuedpiograph call The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs. Interestingly, fornication is not considered a sin in this writing. And it is claimed that interceding for others is useless. Among its glaring errors is that Melchizedek is born before the flood, even though Melchizedek in the Bible is a contemporary of Abraham who lived about 300 years after the