Joe Rogan Experience #2560 - David Grusch · Aired Sep 30, 2026
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The Book of Enoch was excluded from the Bible canon because it did not align with the Torah.
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There is something to this. Scholars note that 1 Enoch leaves out core parts of the Mosaic covenant in the Torah and reflects a rival strand of Judaism, and that may have helped push it out of the Jewish canon. But nobody recorded why it was left out, and the Christian churches that dropped it mostly cited doubts about who wrote it. The one-line version also skips the fact that the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox churches still include Enoch in their Bibles today.
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Is it true that the Book of Enoch was excluded from the Bible canon because it did not align with the Torah?
It leaves out the other side. There is something to this. Scholars note that 1 Enoch leaves out core parts of the Mosaic covenant in the Torah and reflects a rival strand of Judaism, and that may have helped push it out of the Jewish canon. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2560 - David Grusch, aired Sep 30, 2026, at 1:31:41. The supporting source is en.wikipedia.org, linked below.
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