[haywoodwebb]

"Methusaleh (sic) drowned in the flood of Noah."

Nope! The flood happened the year that Methuselah died . . . The literal meaning of his name is "When He Is Dead It Shall Be Sent."

[Palter]

I’ve always enjoyed the connection between Genesis 6, and the sons of man in[Giants] Enoch.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Talmudic tradition teaches that Methuselah died the year of the flood, in fact according to earliest commentaries on the Talmud, the seven day period given in Genesis 7:4 was on the day of Methuselah’s death to give Noah and his family a week of mourning for him.

Enoch is an interesting extra-canonical work, though, and was clearly known in the time of the early Church.

A fascinating read.

[Perdogg]

The Book of Enoch claims that Giants were spawned from the union of rebel angels and earth women.

[gop4lyf]

Isn’t this date setting, which is supposed to be a no no?

[evets]

Freeper Research Project: Enoch and Astronomy

[taxcontrol]

Umm, you do realize that:

1) Jews do not count Enoch in the Tanakh
2) It is an aprocrapil work - authorship is uncertain
3) Was not written in Hebrew as were the other books of Tanakh

And for those reasons was not included in the canon by the early fathers.

[Quix]

THANKS.

Still haven’t finished my 2nd read of the preferred translation.

Sorry.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“If Jude quoted the apocryphal book, he was affirming only the truth of that prophecy and not endorsing the book in its entirety (cf. Paul’s quotation of the Cretan poet Epimenides, in Titus 1:12).”

[Ripliancum]

And it's not just the Book of Enoch that is missing. There are plenty more mentioned in the bible that aren't in the bible.

Lost Books of the Bible:

book of the wars of the Lord, Num. 21:14
book of Jasher, Josh. 10:13 (2 Sam. 1:18).
Samuel … wrote it in a book, 1 Sam. 10:25
book of the acts of Solomon, 1 Kgs. 11:41
book of Samuel the seer, 1 Chr. 29:29
book of Nathan the prophet, 2 Chr. 9:29
book of Shemaiah the prophet, 2 Chr. 12:15
acts of Abijah … in the story of the prophet Iddo, 2 Chr. 13:22
book of Jehu, 2 Chr. 20:34
written among the sayings of the seers, 2 Chr. 33:19
spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene, Matt. 2:23
I wrote unto you in an epistle, 1 Cor. 5:9
as I wrote afore in few words, Eph. 3:3
read the epistle from Laodicea, Col. 4:16
when I gave all diligence to write unto you, Jude 1:3
Enoch also … prophesied of these, Jude 1:14