That's all Enoch really is. It shares your fascination with Genesis 6.. So much packed in that small passage. But I think the Lord wanted the writer of Genesis to leave it at that.. that the post-Flood world is what we should focus on. And good riddance to those monsters.
But we want to poke and figure it out. And that was the writer of Enoch.. a post Exile Jew simply trying to figure it out and drawing correlations with the false gods around the world.
That said, it's better to listen to a 3/4th century BC Jew on what Genesis 6 means than some kook on the History Channel says. Or even many pastors. I think these Jews were simply closer to whatever tradition Genesis 6 came from, while everyone else is separated by more degrees and outside contexts as to make their input worthless.
The book of Enoch
That's one way to look at it, I guess.
But I can agree with the rest you said.
I disagree
Care to explain? If I wanted to know about, say, medieval English history, I'd more than likely get clearer views from the guy living in the year 1000 and who still lives in England.. than some outsider, 2000 years removed and lives in the Virgin Islands.
If I wanted to know about Puritan America, I'd more likely get a clearer view from the generations after them.. than some faggot at Yale in 1994.
I'm actually giving the History channel too much credit. Because they don't even have faggots from Yale. They have people like David Wilcock, who says that the angels themselves explained it all to him… and denies that Jesus even saves people from their sins (but teaches that Jesus is more like another Buddha and everyone misunderstood. yada yada).
The outsider had more time on his hands to study the text more thoroughly and with more and better resources at his hand tho.
The Book of Enoch has the clearest prophecy of Jesus of any early Hebrew work. It was definitely inspired.
In those days shall the earth deliver up from her womb, and hell deliver up from hers, that which it has received; and destruction shall restore that which it owes.
He shall select the righteous and holy from among them; for the day of their salvation has approached.
And in those days shall the Elect One sit upon his throne, while every secret of intellectual wisdom shall proceed from his mouth, for the Lord of spirits has gifted and glorified him.
In those days the mountains shall skip like rams, and the hills shall leap like young sheep (46) satiated with milk; and all the righteous shall become like angels in heaven.
Their countenance shall be bright with joy; for in those days shall the Elect One be exalted. The earth shall rejoice; the righteous shall inhabit it, and the elect possess it.
That really is a beautiful passage, inspired or not.
If only in could read the original texts.
I feel like you can get a feel for the writers mindset and who they were as a person. But unfortunately I can neither read that language nor would I have access to the texts.
I don't think that's the original Book of Jasher, thanks for trying though.