Reading Enoch, Jubilees, and Jasher: A Chapter-by-Chapter Companion to the Giants, the Fallen Angels, and the Ancient Writings Left Out of Genesis
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You bought the big volume. Then you opened it. Enoch. Jubilees. Jasher. Maybe the Book of Giants and a hundred other titles, under a cover promising forbidden scripture. Somewhere in the first thirty pages you began to wonder what exactly you had bought. This is the companion that answers that question. It does not reprint the ancient text, because you already own it. It explains it, whatever edition you happen to have. A chapter-by-chapter walkthrough of all four books Fifty-two chapters in seven parts, following your volume in the order it prints them. Every walkthrough chapter tells you what happens, takes one passage worth knowing and goes through it slowly, defines the names as they appear, shows where the text collides with Genesis and with the other books bound beside it, and closes with what readers get wrong. 1 Enoch, and the five separate works inside it: the Watchers and Mount Hermon, the Parables and the Son of Man, the Astronomical Book and its 364-day year, the Animal Apocalypse, the Epistle. 2 Enoch and 3 Enoch, which are not sequels but different books that acquired the same name. Satanail, the Grigori, and Enoch transformed into Metatron. The Book of Giants, Ohyah and Hahyah, and the ten broken columns of Aramaic under the thirty confident pages your volume prints. Jubilees, its heavenly tables and its calendar, and Mastema, who petitions for a tenth of the spirits and is granted them. Jasher, the longest book in your volume, and the one almost nobody explains. Two translations, and how to tell which one you are holding There are two public domain versions of 1 Enoch in circulation and they disagree at the points that matter most. R. H. Charles worked from twenty-three manuscripts. Richard Laurence worked from one. Look up the giants' height in your chapter 7: three thousand ells means Charles, three hundred cubits means Laurence. Every place the difference changes the meaning is flagged, including whether Enoch himself is the Son of Man. What the early church actually said No council removed these books. No pope struck them from a list. The argument was held in the open and we still have it. Jude quotes 1 Enoch 1:9 with a run of thirteen identical words. Tertullian defended the book and lost. Origen used it cautiously. Augustine argued it away on grounds of provenance, and then chose the reading of Genesis 6 that left it with nothing to be about. Meanwhile the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church never stopped reading it, and still counts it among its eighty-one canonical books. The Jasher test anyone can run in five minutes Your cover probably calls Jasher a lost book of the Bible. Open it at 88:65 and read one verse past the sun standing still at Gibeon. That sentence is Joshua 10:14, the biblical narrator's own comment on the citation. A source cannot contain its quoter's remarks about it. You do not need a word of Hebrew to see it. There is a second test, and it is worse. Checked, not remembered Every chapter and verse reference was verified against public domain editions of the texts themselves, all named at the back. Where it says a word occurs eight times, or nowhere, the count was made. Nephilim, for one, does not occur in 1 Enoch, Jubilees or Jasher at all. Eighteen figures throughout: the transmission of the text from lost Aramaic to your shelf, the eleven Qumran manuscripts and the section the Dead Sea Scrolls did not contain, comparison tables, a Dead Sea Scroll, Mount Hermon under snow, and the 1840 Jasher title page. Plus a passage index that runs the other way. Open your volume at any chapter, look it up, and it sends you to the page that discusses it. Written for the reader who would rather have the truth than a conspiracy.
