What Christians Need to Know - The Book of Enoch: EP 1

What Christians Need to Know - The Book of Enoch: EP 1

Published: September 7, 2026

Duration: 1:00:10

The Book of Enoch is one of the most controversial ancient Jewish texts connected to the Bible — quoted directly in Jude, preserved for centuries in Ethiopia, and discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls. But there is something most discussions about Enoch leave out: 1 Enoch isn't actually one book. It is five separate compositions collected under one name. And when archaeologists recovered Aramaic fragments of Enoch from the caves at Qumran, they found evidence for four of those five sections. One was missing. In Episode 1 of our four-part Book of Enoch arc, Bennett Tanton examines what 1 Enoch actually is, where it ca...