apocrypha · second-temple
1 Enoch — Introduction (Margins)
Anonymous (Second Temple Judaism) · c. 300–100 BC
The Book of Enoch is a Second Temple Jewish apocalyptic work preserved fully in Ge'ez and known in Aramaic fragments from Qumran. It is not part of the Catholic canon. The Church may study it as history and as background to certain New Testament allusions, but it is not doctrine, not Scripture, and not a substitute for the magisterium. We host this page so curiosity does not become confusion.
What this is
1 Enoch gathers visions attributed to the patriarch Enoch — fallen angels, judgment, and a coming figure sometimes called the Son of Man. Parts of the tradition were known to early Christians; the Epistle of Jude alludes to Enochic material. That historical fact does not make the book canonical.
What this is not
It is not the Bible. It is not a secret key that unlocks doctrine. For angelology that the Church actually teaches, begin with Scripture and the tradition around St. Michael the Archangel, and with clear scholastic framing such as Aquinas on God.
Why we keep it in the Margins
Curiosity about non-canonical texts is inevitable. The Scriptorium answers it with labels, not silence — so that tier 1 teaching remains visually and rhetorically distinct.