For three centuries after Christ walked the earth, Christians read the Book of Enoch as Scripture. Not optional reading. Not interesting historical footnote. Scripture. Jude quoted it by name in the New Testament and called it prophecy. Tertullian defended it. Clement of Alexandria built theology on it. The early church fathers referenced Enoch the same way they referenced Genesis or Isaiah or any other authoritative text about the nature of reality and the history of the world.
