In this episode of The Epic of Enoch, Kassie Fox visits Oxford’s Bodleian Library to compare early English translations of the Book of Enoch with the ancient Ge’ez originals preserved by the Ethiopian Church. She uncovers significant differences: passages softened over time, where the offspring of the Watchers shift from “biters,” “blood drinkers,” or oppressors to milder terms like “bastards”; and a key theological distinction between the “righteous” (who face judgment) and a separate preserved group called “the Elect” who inherit peace and the earth. Fox argues these changes reflect deliberate cleaning and simplification by translators, altering the text’s cosmology, hierarchy, and implications about bloodlines, survival, and divine judgment.
