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See Enoch (ancestor of Noah) for more detailed information on the biblical Enoch.
Enoch (from Hebrew: חֲנוֹךְ, Standard Khanokh Tiberian Ḥănôkh; Greek: ενωχ, Enôkh; Arabic Name:إدريس, "initiated, dedicated, disciplined") is a Hebrew name.
Biblical occurrences
The Bible has several occurrences of that name:
- Enoch, the son of Jared, a great-grandfather of Noah, and father of Methuselah (Genesis 5:1-18).[1] It is believed by some sources, including the Talmud, that he was taken away by God because he was a good man, thus avoiding death at the age of 365, and became known as the angel Metatron. He is also identified as the apostle Idris (Arabic: إدريس ). Because he never died he is older than Methuselah who died at 969 years and Enoch is over 5,000 years old. According to Muslim scholars he earned his livelihood as a tailor and is also considered to be the inventor of the eyed metal needle used in sewing. He is the protagonist of the several apocryphal books of the Old Testament:
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- Enoch, son of Cain [2], after whom Cain named the first city he founded is "not" the same Enoch son of Jared (Genesis 5:18).
- Hanoch (Enoch), son of Reuben [3]
- Hanoch (Enoch), one of the five sons of Midian [4]
Note: Enoch is often confused with Enos. Enos is grandson to Adam (Genesis 5:5-6), and great grandfather of Enoch (Genesis 5:18). This Enoch is the author of the "Book of Enoch" and is direct descendant of Adam. Same Enoch who is the great grandfather of Noah.
Fom the I century starting the development of new Enochian myths in Jewish mysticism, in the patristic writings and Islamic religion; from here, as demonstrate by the italian historian Giordano Berti, th name of Enoch arrived in medieval literature, in some magic cults of the Renaissance, in the modern occult thought (Freemasonry, Church of Carmel, Golden Dawn) and in some new religions (Mormons, Adventists, Ufo Cults, New Essenes).
Bibliography
People
- Enoch Adeboye , General Overseer, Reedeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG)
- Enoch Showunmi, football player, currently playing for Bristol City FC
- Enoch Arden, eponimous protagonist in a 1864 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Hanoch Bartov (born 1926), Israeli author
- Hanoch Dagan, Israeli professor
- Hanoch Daum, Israeli journalist
- Shalom Hanoch, Israeli singer, composer and lyricist
- Eduard Heinrich Henoch (1820–1910), German physician
- Enoch Hopper, the most high-strung boy in Ithaca, California, from The Human Comedy, by William Saroyan
- Hanoch Levin (1943–1999), Israeli writer
- Henoch Leibowitz, American rabbi
- Maxim Litvinov (born Meir Henoch Mojszewicz Wallach-Finkelstein) (1876–1951), Russian revolutionary and diplomat
- Hanoch McCarty, professor
- Moses ben Hanoch (died c. 965), Babylonian-born Spanish rabbi
- Hanoch Nenner, Israeli politician
- Chanoch Nissany (born 1963), Israeli-born Hungarian racing driver
- Enoch Powell (1912-1998), conservative British politician
- Enoch Root, a recurring character in Neal Stephenson's novels Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle.
- Enoch Pratt, 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland (USA) businessman and philanthropist.
- jHenosch Farissen, firmamental recovered cybercharacter in Science non-fiction novel Reversum.
Places
- Enoch Reserve, an aboriginal settlement located west of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Enoch, Utah, a small town north of Cedar City
- Enoch, the name of a city in several of Samuel R. Delany's works, including the Return to Nevèrÿon series and The Mad Man.
- St. Enoch Square, Glasgow, Scotland, is from a corruption of St Thenew, mother of St Kentigern of Glasgow Cathedral.
Other occurences
- Enochian, the occult language and script.
- Eliphas Levi claimed that Enoch was a ficticious character used to describe the process of spiritual advancement of humanity.
- Hanoch, a Star Trek villain in the episode Return to Tomorrow
- Katherine Enoch, extensively written about in A Cornish Shopkeeper's Diary 1843, R Glynn, as someone who loved a drink, leading to the authors expression of drunken abandonment 'I was enoched, not a muscle would move nor the gods awaken me.'
- Enoch Linux, a Linux distribution later renamed Gentoo Linux.
- U. S. President Calvin Coolidge owned a goose named Enoch.
- Henoch-Schönlein purpura, a disease
- Enoch, the leader of a fictional criminal organization in the animated series, Ben 10.
- Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" Baruch's brother the Metatron originally known as Enoch.
References
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