Bible Expert (likely Wesley Huff or a co-host closely involved with Biblical scholarship)
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Yeah. Enoch's very interesting. There's actually three Enochs, first, second, and third Enoch. And the only one that really has any kind of credibility is First Enoch. But even then, what we call First Enoch is a collection of different, so we have fragments in Aramaic and Greek in the Dead Sea Scrolls, but then we have later ones in Coptic.
Yeah. Enoch's very interesting. There's actually three Enochs, first, second, and third Enoch. And the only one that really has any kind of credibility is First Enoch. But even then, what we call First Enoch is a collection of different, so we have fragments in Aramaic and Greek in the Dead Sea Scrolls, but then we have later ones in Coptic.
And so what ends up being like published as if you buy a copy of First Enoch, it's like all of this stuff put together. Some of it is like 200 years before Jesus, but some of it, Could very well have been written in the timeframe of Jesus in the first century, 80. But it's very clearly like a collection of Jewish musings about what happened during the flood.
And so what ends up being like published as if you buy a copy of First Enoch, it's like all of this stuff put together. Some of it is like 200 years before Jesus, but some of it, Could very well have been written in the timeframe of Jesus in the first century, 80. But it's very clearly like a collection of Jewish musings about what happened during the flood.
And so what ends up being like published as if you buy a copy of First Enoch, it's like all of this stuff put together. Some of it is like 200 years before Jesus, but some of it, Could very well have been written in the timeframe of Jesus in the first century, 80. But it's very clearly like a collection of Jewish musings about what happened during the flood.
It's like very theologically in-depth fan fiction.
It's like very theologically in-depth fan fiction.
It's like very theologically in-depth fan fiction.
I think it's them trying to figure out, and this is common with like the pseudographical work, is that there's another one called the Excoge of Moses. So they're looking at these Old Testament stories and they're trying to figure out, okay, like, how do we explain some of these things?
I think it's them trying to figure out, and this is common with like the pseudographical work, is that there's another one called the Excoge of Moses. So they're looking at these Old Testament stories and they're trying to figure out, okay, like, how do we explain some of these things?
I think it's them trying to figure out, and this is common with like the pseudographical work, is that there's another one called the Excoge of Moses. So they're looking at these Old Testament stories and they're trying to figure out, okay, like, how do we explain some of these things?
You have this weird story in Genesis chapter six, where the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful. And that's where you get the Nephilim and that kind of stuff. And so the Jews are like, how do we figure this stuff out? What are demons? What are angels? How do they interact with this world? There's not actually that much in the Old Testament about that stuff.
You have this weird story in Genesis chapter six, where the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful. And that's where you get the Nephilim and that kind of stuff. And so the Jews are like, how do we figure this stuff out? What are demons? What are angels? How do they interact with this world? There's not actually that much in the Old Testament about that stuff.
You have this weird story in Genesis chapter six, where the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful. And that's where you get the Nephilim and that kind of stuff. And so the Jews are like, how do we figure this stuff out? What are demons? What are angels? How do they interact with this world? There's not actually that much in the Old Testament about that stuff.
So let's write something like the gospel or not the gospel or the book of Enoch to try to expand upon and extrapolate this stuff. Enoch is... So you don't believe in the Nephilim? Well, yeah, they're in the Bible. The Nephilim are in the Bible. It just depends what you mean by Nephilim. Well, what do you mean by it?
So let's write something like the gospel or not the gospel or the book of Enoch to try to expand upon and extrapolate this stuff. Enoch is... So you don't believe in the Nephilim? Well, yeah, they're in the Bible. The Nephilim are in the Bible. It just depends what you mean by Nephilim. Well, what do you mean by it?
So let's write something like the gospel or not the gospel or the book of Enoch to try to expand upon and extrapolate this stuff. Enoch is... So you don't believe in the Nephilim? Well, yeah, they're in the Bible. The Nephilim are in the Bible. It just depends what you mean by Nephilim. Well, what do you mean by it?
Yeah. Nephilim is a giant. tricky term because we don't really know where it originates so nafal means to fall right in hebrew and so that's where you get the idea these are fallen angels yeah um but the greek translation of the old testament translated as gigas which is giant giants yeah so and then they pop up later in canaan when uh when uh what's his face goliath goliath
Yeah. Nephilim is a giant. tricky term because we don't really know where it originates so nafal means to fall right in hebrew and so that's where you get the idea these are fallen angels yeah um but the greek translation of the old testament translated as gigas which is giant giants yeah so and then they pop up later in canaan when uh when uh what's his face goliath goliath
Yeah. Nephilim is a giant. tricky term because we don't really know where it originates so nafal means to fall right in hebrew and so that's where you get the idea these are fallen angels yeah um but the greek translation of the old testament translated as gigas which is giant giants yeah so and then they pop up later in canaan when uh when uh what's his face goliath goliath