The Book of Enoch Is Now in the BibleTimes Reader
Why we added it, why the moment is right, and what the text actually contains.
The Book of Enoch has been getting attention on X and in search. Its content on angels, the origins of the Nephilim, and the story behind Genesis 6 has been driving that interest. We have put it in the reader.
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The book covers territory the Bible approaches and never fully explains. It names the Watchers, two hundred angels who descended to earth, took human wives, and fathered the Nephilim, the giants described in Genesis 6:4. It provides the full account: the descent, the oath sworn at Mount Hermon so none can defect, the forbidden knowledge transmitted to humanity, the archangels dispatched in response. Chapters 17-36 take Enoch on a tour of the cosmos, showing the physical structures holding back the seas, the prison of fire and darkness where the Watchers are bound, the movements of the stars as named living beings.
The book has been controversial for a specific reason. Jude 1:14-15 quotes it as prophecy: “And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints.” The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has kept it in their biblical canon since the 4th century. The Dead Sea Scrolls included it among the most copied texts at Qumran. Yet every Western Christian tradition excluded it from the canon. That is the gap that keeps it resurfacing.
We are expanding the reader beyond the standard canon. Enoch is the first. Use code ENOCH for your first month of Scholar free.