They Ran the Book of Enoch Through AI… What It Found Changes Everything

They Ran the Book of Enoch Through AI… What It Found Changes Everything Over 1,600 years after the Book of Enoch was removed from the Christian canon, 11 Aramaic copies of it lay undisturbed in the Judean desert caves with no one knowing they existed. They told us that this book was apocryphal, a text unworthy of sitting beside Genesis or Isaiah. But what if an artificial intelligence has just proven that it is hundreds of years older than every previous estimate? In 2025, a research team at the University of Groningen led by Professor Mladen Popović trained an AI model to analyze ink strokes on hundreds of parchment fragments from the Dead Sea. They named it Enoch, after the very book that most of the world had forgotten for 16 centuries. The first results coming back from the laboratory showed that many scrolls were 50 to 150 years older than what any paleographer had ever estimated by eye. The fragments carried a script style that scholars associated with King Herod, but the AI showed it already existed decades before Herod took the throne. They lay in the caves where archaeologists once found 40 skeletons of men, women, and children who died of thirst at the feet of Roman soldiers. The Book of Enoch has just been run through artificial intelligence, and what it found changes everything. 108 chapters about fallen angels, the giant Nephilim, a figure called the Son of Man appearing earlier than the New Testament, along with a 364-day solar calendar that no one can explain why it is so accurate.