Is The Book Of Enoch In The Orthodox Bible. Enoch is one of only two people (elijah being the other) in the word of god who was taking up to heaven without dying ( genesis 5:24; The jews met at jamnia in ad 90 and 1 enoch was not even mentioned for possible inclusion in the hebrew bible.
The ethiopian orthodox are not the only ones who consider 1 enoch scripture. Most famously, it claims that the nephilim (found in genesis) are the result of sexual relationship between angels and human females, which is a possible interpretation of genesis 6:4. Rejecting all the wicked and ungodly.
One of many interesting facts about 1 enoch is.
The only people who accept the book as an official part of their holy scriptures are ethiopian jews and the ethiopian orthodox church and a few more obscure religious groups around. Here are some of the reasons why the book of enoch was excluded from the bible: Nor by any christian group, apart from the ethiopian orthodox church and eritrean. The book of enoch is a relatively late book, written and compiled in the 4th through 2nd centuries bce.