early church themselves, who also fought heavily over the writings that should and would be considered Scripture.
Even though Enoch is quoted in the New Testament by Jude, it is not necessarily a validation of the whole book. Paul quoted from some of the Greek poets, but they were obviously not inspired. A quotation from another extra-biblical source is not a validation that the work was inspired.
The Book of Enoch was never considered authentic by the Jewish rabbis, and it was never included in the Hebrew Scriptures’ canon. There are twenty Book of Enoch manuscripts in the Dead Sea Scrolls, but all are in Aramaic, not Hebrew. Thus, they are not part of the Hebrew Old Testament. We have [...]