Scholars argued the Book of Enoch was illegitimate and it was unavailable for the common people to read until after the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls.
Directly from the shitty Wikipedia-
Various Aramaic fragments found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as Koine Greek and Latin fragments, are proof that the Book of Enoch was known by Jews and early Near Eastern Christians.
And from the same Wiki article linked above, the scholars used to claim the following before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls proved them wrong.
It was no longer possible to claim that the core of the Book of Enoch was composed in the wake of the Maccabean Revolt as a reaction to Hellenization.
In other words, scholars claimed the Book of Enoch was written sometime between 167–141 BC, which would have meant it was a forgery.
Where I wrote "revealed exactly at the time it was needed" in my original post, I could have written something to the effect of "revealed to be legitimate and not a forgery at exactly the time it was needed," but with less clumsy language, of course.
Ok, I see where you got the "revealed" from. But it is only clarification of when/how Book of Enoch was composed, not when the text was available and understood.
If you weren't a scholar, you likely weren't reading the Book of Enoch until after the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls.
Also, until those texts were discovered, it was impossible to have a complete copy of the Book of Enoch. The Ethiopians preserved most of it but the Dead Sea scrolls provided the rest of it.
I haven't read any of it before; sounds very interesting! When reading Genesis, I had always thought that there must have been some kind of "inter-species" mating, when it refers to the sons of God seeing that the daughters of man were beautiful. A friend of mine's favorite saying is, "We don't know what we don't know" :)
According to the Book of Enoch, the Sons of God mentioned in Genesis 6 were fallen angels and their offspring with the daughters of men were the giants AKA Nephilim. As the Nephilim were half angel/half human, they became wandering spirits AKA demons after their physical death.
It really clarifies the Old Testament, why God sent the Great Flood (preserve human DNA) and all the death and destruction of all the tribes in the land of Canaan after the Flood.
These were all tribes of giants mentioned in the Old Testament-
Amalekites
Amorites
Anakims
Ashdothites
Aviums
Avites
Canaanites
Caphtorims
Ekronites
Emins
Emins
Eshkalonites
Gazathites
Geshurites
Gibeonites
Giblites
Girgashites
Gittites
Hittites
Hivites
Horims
Horites
Jebusites
Kadmonites
Kenites
Kenizzites
Maachathites
Manassites
Perizzites
Philistines
Rephaims
Sidonians
Zamzummins
Zebusites
Zuzims
Here's where some of the giant tribes are mentioned, but you can search any individual tribe on biblegateway.com (KJV) if you want more information.
Scholars argued the Book of Enoch was illegitimate and it was unavailable for the common people to read until after the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls.
Directly from the shitty Wikipedia-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch
And from the same Wiki article linked above, the scholars used to claim the following before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls proved them wrong.
In other words, scholars claimed the Book of Enoch was written sometime between 167–141 BC, which would have meant it was a forgery.
Where I wrote "revealed exactly at the time it was needed" in my original post, I could have written something to the effect of "revealed to be legitimate and not a forgery at exactly the time it was needed," but with less clumsy language, of course.
Ok, I see where you got the "revealed" from. But it is only clarification of when/how Book of Enoch was composed, not when the text was available and understood.
If you weren't a scholar, you likely weren't reading the Book of Enoch until after the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls.
Also, until those texts were discovered, it was impossible to have a complete copy of the Book of Enoch. The Ethiopians preserved most of it but the Dead Sea scrolls provided the rest of it.
I haven't read any of it before; sounds very interesting! When reading Genesis, I had always thought that there must have been some kind of "inter-species" mating, when it refers to the sons of God seeing that the daughters of man were beautiful. A friend of mine's favorite saying is, "We don't know what we don't know" :)
According to the Book of Enoch, the Sons of God mentioned in Genesis 6 were fallen angels and their offspring with the daughters of men were the giants AKA Nephilim. As the Nephilim were half angel/half human, they became wandering spirits AKA demons after their physical death.
It really clarifies the Old Testament, why God sent the Great Flood (preserve human DNA) and all the death and destruction of all the tribes in the land of Canaan after the Flood.
These were all tribes of giants mentioned in the Old Testament-
Amalekites
Amorites
Anakims
Ashdothites
Aviums
Avites
Canaanites
Caphtorims
Ekronites
Emins
Emins
Eshkalonites
Gazathites
Geshurites
Gibeonites
Giblites
Girgashites
Gittites
Hittites
Hivites
Horims
Horites
Jebusites
Kadmonites
Kenites
Kenizzites
Maachathites
Manassites
Perizzites
Philistines
Rephaims
Sidonians
Zamzummins
Zebusites
Zuzims
Here's where some of the giant tribes are mentioned, but you can search any individual tribe on biblegateway.com (KJV) if you want more information.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2014&version=KJV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua%2013&version=KJV