A reader's edition of
The Book of Enoch
Three public-domain English translations, side by side. Click any blue phrase to see where it shows up in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Dead Sea Scrolls, or older Mesopotamian stories. Nine interpretive traditions, each on its own page. No login. Nothing leaves your browser.
Where to begin
Six chapters with the deepest cross-reference coverage.
The Watchers' Oath on Hermon
Two hundred angels look down, decide to take human wives, and swear an oath together so the punishment will fall on everyone.
08Azazel Teaches Forbidden Arts
The Watcher who taught humanity metalworking, weapons, cosmetics, and the reading of stars.
10The Divine Sentence
Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel dispatched: bind Azazel in the desert; destroy the giants; warn Noah.
14Enoch's Throne Vision
The vision that gave Western mysticism its template — wheels of fire, the Great Glory enthroned, ten thousand attendants.
46The Son of Man
The Parables introduce a figure who sits beside the Head of Days. Daniel 7, Matthew 24, all run through here.
93The Apocalypse of Weeks
History divided into ten "weeks" — six already past in the author's day, the seventh just begun, three more to come.
The other two Enochs
There are three ancient books named for the patriarch. Each goes somewhere different.
2 Enoch — the Slavonic Apocalypse
Enoch is carried through the seven heavens by two angels at age 365. He sees the storehouses of dew and snow, the angels of the seasons, the throne of God face to face — then is briefly returned to teach his sons. Closes with a Melchizedek coda.
III3 Enoch — the Hebrew Apocalypse
The most striking of the three. Enoch ascends and is transformed into Metatron, the "lesser YHWH" — highest of the angels, enlarged to match the world, seated on a throne next to God's. The text behind the Two Powers controversy.
People & places
Glossary entries with backstory and context.
Cross-references
Key intertexts.
- Jude 14–15 — the NT quotation
- Genesis 6:1–4 — the source passage
- 4Q201 — the oldest manuscript
- The Apkallu — Mesopotamian background
Traditions
Nine perspectives on the same text.
Voices
Who's actually talking about Enoch.
- Curated guide to ~25 voices
- Academic · Popular Christian · LDS · Ethiopian · (labeled) Fringe
The Reading Lens
At the top of every page is a small dropdown labelled Lens. Leave it on All traditions and the site shows everything side by side. Pick a single tradition — Latter-day Saint, Ethiopian Orthodox, Rabbinic Jewish, and so on — and that tradition's commentary and resources move to the top of each chapter.
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