Enoch / Idrīs

חֲנוֹךְ (Hebrew) · إدريس (Arabic)

Patriarch who walked with God and was taken up

Overview

Both traditions describe a righteous figure who was elevated without death. The Torah’s Enoch is the seventh patriarch who “walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him” (Gen 5:24). The Quran’s Idrīs is a prophet raised to a high station: “We raised him to a high place” (Surah 19:57). Islamic tradition identifies Idrīs with Enoch and sometimes with Hermes Trismegistus.

In the Torah

Enoch in Torah

Key passages:

• 21 - Enoch walks with God 300 years
• 24 - taken up; “he was no more”

In the Quran

Idrīs in Quran

Key passages:

• 56 - “And mention in the Book, Idris…”
• 85 - listed among patient prophets

Shared Themes

• righteousness
• taken-up
• patriarch
• prophet

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