Enoch

Enoch was the seventh patriarch from Adam in the Sethite line (Genesis 5:18–24), father of Methuselah, who holds a unique place in the biblical record: 'Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.' This brief notice—the only figure besides Elijah to depart life without a recorded death—sparked enormous speculation in Second Temple Judaism, producing an extensive body of pseudepigraphical literature including 1 Enoch, 2 Enoch, and the Book of Jubilees, where he is depicted as a heavenly scribe and revealer of cosmic secrets. In the New Testament, Jude 14–15 quotes a prophecy from 1 Enoch about God's coming judgment, and Hebrews 11:5 celebrates him as a man of faith whom God commended.