First Enoch is the common title for a “library” of traditions about the antediluvian patriarch Enoch (Gen 5:21–24), comprising five books dating from different periods, which was highly influential in the New Testament period (e.g., Matt 25:31–46; Jude 6, 14–15) and beyond (e.g., Ep. Barn. 4.3; Apoc. Pet. 4; 13; Tertullian, Cult. fem. 1.2; Idol. 4; Origen, Princ. 1.3.3; 4.4.8).
