When the Rebels Are Confined

Enoch's expanded account gives the rebels a fate and a timetable. Their confinement occurs within the sequence leading toward the Flood, and the tradition speaks of a long period of imprisonment. These details make the comparison with Greece more difficult.

Greek genealogies commonly place Deucalion's flood before many celebrated unions between gods and human beings. If Deucalion's flood and Noah's were one event, and if the Greek parents were Enoch's confined rebels, we would have to explain how the later unions occurred.

The source does not provide that explanation. Proposals involving release, indirect action, or a different group of beings add further claims that need their own support. None follows merely from noticing that both traditions contain divine-human ancestry.

Enoch therefore sharpens the central chronological problem. Its fuller narrative is helpful evidence for ancient interpretation, but its sequence cannot be stretched at will to make the heroic genealogies fit.