Joe Rogan Said The Dead Sea Scrolls Are "Bananas." I Checked Every Word Against My Bible. He Was Right. He Just Didn't Have Time To Get To The Part That Matters Most.

in a 50-second clip that's been going around, rogan says a book called enoch was "yanked out" of the bible. your own bible quotes it, word for word. and one country never stopped reading it.

By Emily Johnson, Christian Researcher

Updated Nov 2026 | 6 min read

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joe rogan isn't selling anything here, and he has no connection to this page. he was just talking. i'm a bible reader who checked what he said, line by line. here's what i found.

If you just watched that clip, you probably had the same reaction I did.

 

You stopped scrolling. You watched it again. And right around "That's what's crazy," a small voice said: wait. Is that actually true?

 

I've read my Bible most mornings for most of my life. I'd never heard a word about the Book of Enoch from a pulpit.

 

So I did what you're probably itching to do. I paused the clip, took my Bible off the nightstand, and checked every claim in it.

 

He was right about more than he knew. But a 50-second clip only has room for so much.

 

The most important part isn't in the clip at all. It's in the Book of Jude, chapter 1, verse 14. In the Bible you already own.

 

Here's the heart of what Rogan said:

 

"If you get to the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Dead Sea Scrolls are bananas... A bunch of rabbis [said] it didn't align with the Torah, and so they yanked it out. But it's an original biblical text."

 

So let's take his claims one at a time.

Claim #1: "The Book Of Enoch Was In There, Along With The Book Of Isaiah"

True. In 1947, as the story is usually told, a young shepherd threw a stone into a cave above the Dead Sea and heard pottery break.

 

Inside were clay jars. Inside the jars were scrolls.

 

Over the next few years, the caves around Qumran gave up pieces of more than 900 ancient manuscripts. Almost every book of your Old Testament was there. Genesis. The Psalms. Isaiah.

 

And Enoch. Pieces of eleven separate copies, in Aramaic, copied before Jesus was born.

 

Not in a different cave. Not in a pile marked "rejected." Kept by the same people, on the same shelves, as Isaiah.

Claim #2: "For One Thousand Years, They Maintained The Exact Same Story"

True. And it should give you chills.

 

Before 1947, the oldest complete Hebrew copies of Isaiah anyone had were made around a thousand years after Christ.

 

The Great Isaiah Scroll from Cave 1 was copied about a thousand years before those.

 

Scholars laid the two side by side. A thousand years of copying by hand, by lamplight, one generation passing it to the next.

 

They were nearly word for word the same. Most of the differences were spelling.

 

Exactly what Rogan said: the people who kept these scrolls did not invent things, and they did not change things.

 

Which raises the question the clip never gets to.

 

If they were that careful with Isaiah, why would anyone assume they were careless with Enoch?

Claim #3: The Giants (And What Enoch Says About Them)

He didn't have time to get to this one. It's the one that matters.

 

In the clip, someone asks about the giants. It's the part everyone remembers.

Your Bible mentions them too. Open it to Genesis 6:

 

"There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." (Genesis 6:4, KJV)

 

That's nearly all you get. Four short verses, and Genesis moves on to the ark.

 

The Book of Enoch doesn't move on. It gives them chapters. It calls them the Watchers, and it tells you how many came down, where, and when: "Two hundred angels in total descended during Jared's time onto Mount Hermon's peak..." (Enoch 6)

 

Angels. Angels who left their place, took wives, and taught men what they were never meant to know: swords and armor, sorcery, the cutting of roots. Their children were the giants Genesis mentions in a single sentence.

 

And your own Bible backs Enoch's version. Twice.

 

"And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." (Jude 1:6, KJV)

 

"For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment..." (2 Peter 2:4, KJV)

 

Peter and Jude write about these angels as if their readers already knew the story.

 

They did. They had read Enoch.

 

And then there's chapter 15.

 

The clip stops at the giants. Enoch doesn't. It tells you what became of them after they died:

 

"Now the giants born from spirits and flesh will be called evil spirits on earth, making earth their home... The giants' spirits will torment, oppress, destroy, assault, wage war, and wreak havoc on earth, causing distress." (Enoch 15, The Faith Made edition)

 

Torment. Oppress.

 

Read that slowly.

 

If your prayers have ever felt like they hit the ceiling, if a heaviness has followed your family and nobody at church could tell you where it came from, this is the chapter nobody handed you.

 

Paul told you it was real:

 

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." (Ephesians 6:12, KJV)

 

Enoch tells you where some of it came from.

 

A Christian can't stand against what no one has ever explained to them.

Claim #4: "A Bunch Of Rabbis... Yanked It Out"

True. Somebody did take it out of your Bible. And it's worse than he had time to say.

 

It didn't happen in one meeting. It happened through decisions, made by people, over centuries. And some of those people were Christians.

 

Around 200 AD, Tertullian, a church father in North Africa, defended Enoch as Scripture. Two centuries later, Augustine argued it shouldn't be read as Scripture. The Western church went with Augustine. Copies stopped being made, and within a few centuries Europe had lost the book entirely.

 

Then it happened again, closer to home.

 

The 1611 King James Bible had 80 books, not 66. Fourteen of them sat between the Old and New Testaments. Your great-great-grandmother's family Bible very likely had them.

 

In 1826, a committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society voted to stop paying to print those fourteen books. One reason given: a Bible without them was cheaper to produce. The American Bible Society followed in 1828.

 

Nobody asked the families in the pews. Nobody asked your grandmother. She was handed the smaller book, and so were you.

 

It's not your fault you've never read Enoch. Nobody ever put it in your hands.

 

(Don't take my word for it. Search "Apocrypha Controversy 1826" and read it yourself.)

The Part Rogan Left Out: Your Bible Quotes Enoch Word For Word

This is where I sat down on the edge of the bed.

 

Turn to Jude, the short letter right before Revelation. Verse 14:

 

"And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all..." (Jude 1:14-15, KJV)

 

Jude doesn't say "there's an old tradition." He names his source. Enoch prophesied.

 

Now here is the first chapter of the Book of Enoch:

 

"Behold! He arrives with ten thousand of His holy ones to execute judgment upon everyone..." (Enoch 1)

 

Read them one after the other. Same prophecy. Same ten thousands. Same judgment.

 

Jude is quoting.

 

A book quoted by name inside your New Testament. Copied beside Isaiah in the Dead Sea caves. And missing from the Bible on your nightstand.

 

Rogan called it "an original biblical text." On that point, he and Jude agree.

The Other Part He Left Out: One Country Never Took It Out

The clip ends with Enoch still sitting in a cave.

 

But the caves only gave us pieces. Roughly a fifth of the book, by most counts.

 

So where did the rest go?

 

It was never lost. A whole nation had been reading it the entire time.

 

Ethiopia. Your Bible already points there. Acts 8: an Ethiopian official sits in his chariot on the desert road, reading Isaiah, and Philip baptizes him. By around 330 AD, Ethiopia's king had made it one of the first Christian nations on earth.

 

Ethiopia was never colonized. No empire ever rewrote its Bible. While Europe forgot Enoch, and while London voted to cut books, Ethiopian monks kept copying every book by hand in their ancient language, Ge'ez.

 

That's why the only complete Book of Enoch on earth is the Ethiopian one.

 

In 1773 a Scottish explorer named James Bruce carried copies home from Ethiopia. That's how the West got the book back. 174 years later, a shepherd found the Aramaic pieces in those caves. They were pieces of the same book Ethiopia had been copying all along.

 

Men took it out of your Bible.

 

But God doesn't lose. He had it kept, in a country no empire ever managed to rewrite, until you could hold it again.

Why This Matters More For You Than For Joe Rogan

Rogan gets to call it "bananas" and move on to the next guest.

 

You don't.

 

You've just seen Jude quote it. You've just read what Enoch 15 says the giants' spirits do. And you know now that the book on your nightstand was handed to you with Enoch left out.

 

The only question is whether you read the rest of it, or stop at the clip.

How To Read What Rogan Was Talking About

The answer turned out to be simple.

Read Enoch the way Ethiopia kept it: in one volume, right beside the 66 books you already know, so you can hold every page up against Scripture yourself.

That's the Ethiopian canon. Your Genesis through Revelation, untouched, plus the 22 books the Western Bible lost along the way. That includes Enoch, and Jubilees, another book found in those same caves.

Nothing is taken away from you. You simply read what Jude read.

All 88 Books. Nothing Left Out.

88 books. Not 66. That's 22 books of God's complete word, preserved for over 1,700 years in the one place no one could reach.

The One That Told Me The Truth First

The edition I ended up with is The Faith Made Complete Ethiopian Bible.

 

The first page isn't a sales pitch. It's a letter to the reader, and it admits something none of the others would: ancient Ge'ez does not translate word for word into English. Not in this Bible. Not in any Bible.

 

It asks you to read the way the faithful always have, with the discernment of the Holy Spirit.

 

That's when I trusted it. The publishers who are honest about the hard part are usually honest about everything else.

 

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