Enoch, Jubilees and others · 2 Enoch 1:3–5; 3:1

Two tall men with shining faces

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Reference2 Enoch 1:3–5; 3:1

WrittenDebated, c. 1st century CE

SetEnoch's 365th year

There appeared to me two men, exceeding big, so that I never saw such on earth; their faces were shining like the sun, their eyes too were like a burning light… and they took me on to their wings and bore me up on to the first heaven.

Translation: Morfill and Charles, 1896 · About the translator

Read it literally

An abduction by two giant men at Enoch's bedside. He asks for time to tell his sons, and they wait.

What scholars say

Survives only in Slavonic manuscripts from the 1300s on. Some scholars date it much later.

Taken up alive From the sky

Quick answers about 2 Enoch 1:3–5

Where is 2 Enoch 1:3–5 found?

2 Enoch 1:3–5; 3:1 (Enoch, Jubilees and others). Translation quoted: W. R. Morfill and R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (1896).

When was 2 Enoch 1:3–5 written?

Debated, c. 1st century CE.

What do scholars say about 2 Enoch 1:3–5?