Naked Bible 93: The Book of Enoch in the Early Church

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 29 March 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The book we know as 1 Enoch was well known to early Christians. Its importance produced an understandable question among some influential early Christian writers and, one may presume, Christians in general: Should 1 Enoch be considered inspired and thus “Scripture” in the manner of other books in the Old Testament? Ultimately, Christianity at large answered this question negatively, save for the Church in Ethiopia. But the discussion is nonetheless of interest today. This episode presents an abbreviated survey of how select Second Temple Jews and early Christian books and writers assessed the scriptural status of 1 Enoch. Google Book referenced: James C. VanderKam, “1 Enoch, Enochic Motifs, and Enoch in Early Christian Literature,” Pages 33-101 in James C. VanderKam and William Adler, eds., The Jewish Apocalyptic Heritage in Early Christianity (Compendia rerum iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum 3/4; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996). paper referenced: Nickelsburg Knowledge of Enoch and Watchers Story in Early Judaism and Christianity

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0:26.5	Welcome to the Naked Bible Podcast episode 93, the book of Enoch in the early church.
0:31.7	I'm your layman, Trace Strickland, and he's a scholar.
0:34.4	Dr. Michael Heizer, how you feeling this week?
0:37.0	Oh, good.
0:38.0	I should say better.
0:39.0	I had a cold after the Delaware event kind of knocked me out for a couple of days, but
0:44.7	pretty good now.
0:45.7	I mean, almost over on the tail end anyway.
0:48.5	Yeah, just a colder.
0:50.4	As far as I know, yeah, I got it from my brother.
0:53.0	He came up for the Delaware thing and we went out to eat a couple of times and that
0:57.4	was all it took, I guess.
0:59.2	So thanks for bringing that up from Virginia.
1:01.8	We'll blame it.
1:02.8	We'll blame it on him.
1:03.8	All right.
1:04.8	We'll blame it on the brother.
1:05.8	Well, Mike, this show we're going to be talking about the book of Enoch in the early
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