About the Enoch Archive

What Is This?

The Enoch Archive is an independent project dedicated to making three ancient texts accessible to modern readers. These books - preserved from the Second Temple period - describe the fall of the Watchers, celestial journeys through the heavens, sacred chronology organized in jubilee cycles, and vivid patriarchal narrative from Adam through the Judges.

The site presents all three texts alongside deeply cross-linked explorations of their characters, geography, prophecies, themes, symbols, and more - all interconnected so you can navigate the ancient world these texts describe.

How to Use

• Read - Open any book and chapter. Use arrow keys to navigate between chapters.
• Listen - Full audio narration with verse-synced playback and ambient music.
• Animate - Immersive fullscreen mode with dynamic visuals as the text is read aloud.
• Explore - Browse 12 connection types: characters, geography, timeline, prophecies, battles, dreams, symbols, themes, feasts, covenants, sacred objects, and eras.
• Search - Find any passage, keyword, or topic across all three books and 200+ connections.
• Dark Mode - Designed for dark mode by default. Toggle to light if preferred.

The Texts

The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, 108 chapters) - Apocalyptic visions and heavenly journeys. It survives complete only in Ge'ez (Ethiopic) and is canonical scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Translation: R.H. Charles, 1917 (public domain).

The Book of Jubilees (50 chapters) - Sacred history organized in jubilee cycles, revealed to Moses by the Angel of the Presence. Also canonical in the Ethiopian tradition. Translation: R.H. Charles, 1913 (public domain).

The Book of Jasher (91 chapters) - The medieval Hebrew Sefer haYashar (English edition, 1840), a vivid retelling of Genesis through Judges. It is not the lost biblical Book of Jasher named in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18, and is far later than the genuinely ancient Books of Enoch and Jubilees. We include it, clearly labeled, for its rich narrative tradition.

All three translations are in the public domain. Together they contain 249 chapters and 6,285 verses.

Sources, Method & Standards

• The scripture text is the public-domain translation, verbatim. It is never paraphrased, summarized, or AI-generated. We proofread it against the source and remove any editorial or license text that crept in from digitized copies.
• 1 Enoch is an anthology of five books (Watchers 1-36, Parables 37-71, Luminaries 72-82, Dreams 83-90, Epistle 91-108), each with its own date and author. Every chapter is labeled with its book and the scholarly dating.
• "In brief" summaries are the archive's own, in plain language. "Scholar's notes" are drawn from R.H. Charles' 1912 critical commentary (public domain) and are attributed as such.
• Connections are curated, linking each passage to the characters, places, themes, prophecies, and parallel accounts it names across all three books.
• AI is used only for artwork and audio narration, never for the scripture text or its translation. Illustrations are interpretive, not historical artifacts.
• To cite a passage, reference the book, chapter, and verse with the translation, e.g. 1 Enoch 1:9 (trans. R.H. Charles, 1917).

Technology

Built with Node.js, Express, and EJS. All text data is bundled as JSON - no external database required. Hosted on Fly.io with media served from Cloudflare R2 CDN. Artwork and audio narration generated with AI.

No accounts. No ads. No tracking cookies. All personal data (bookmarks, reading progress) stays in your browser's local storage.

Copyright & Licensing

• Ancient texts - Public domain.
• Original content (summaries, notes, design) - © Keith Adler, MIT License.
• AI-generated images & audio - For personal/educational use within this site.

For full details, see our Copyright & Legal Notices page.

This site is an independent project. It is not affiliated with any religious organization, academic institution, or commercial publisher.