The Book of Enoch book club questions

The reading plan

Meeting 1: Chapters 1 to 52

1. When knowledge spreads alongside suffering, how should responsibility be shared between those who teach and those who use it?
2. How convincing is nature's steady order as a standard for judging human choices?
3. Does the angels' shared agreement make their decision to take human wives seem more deliberate, more understandable, or both?
4. What does Enoch's role as messenger suggest about the distance between asking for forgiveness and receiving it?
5. How does giving the dead separate waiting places shape your sense of justice before final judgment?

Meeting 2: Chapters 53 to 83

6. How should we understand a confession that brings no relief: as genuine change, fear of consequences, or something else?
7. How does the promise against another destruction of everyone affect your view of the warning still given to rulers?
8. What does the command to hold back destructive waters suggest about power and restraint?
9. How does Michael's trembling affect your response to punishment carried out without intercession?
10. How does the prediction of failing seasons complicate the earlier contrast between obedient nature and rebellious people?

Meeting 3: Chapters 84 to 108

11. What difference does it make that the flock's abuse is recorded, even while its keepers allow it to suffer?
12. How does the horned ram's resistance shape your understanding of the divine intervention that follows?
13. How might warnings that unjust riches disappear challenge what people consider a successful life?
14. How persuasive is sailors' fear of the sea as a reason people should fear divine power?
15. What is appealing, and what is troubling, about the claim that death makes everyone equal?

Themes to talk about

Tips for the host

1. Open each meeting with one question everyone can answer, then go deeper.
2. Anyone who fell behind can catch up with the 15-minute summary.