Ancient politics. "This book was somewhat similar to Revelation, but was considered too severe and strange to be included in the Bible." or so claims Wikipeida. I think it's interesting that first and second Maccabees were left out. Hanukkah must be some sort of conspiracy, huh? Seriously, though, there was a special on the History Channel called "Banned From the Bible". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_from_the_Bible There's a video from the special here: http://www.history.com/media.do?action=clip&id=banned_enoch_broadband

The book of Enoch was written in the 2nd century B.C., and was popular for about 500 years, with both Jews and early Christians. It is one of 15 works of the Jewish apocrypha, and the Jews rejected the book of Enoch when they made a canon of their own scriptures late in the second century A.D. During the first three hundred years of Christianity, early church leaders made reference to it. The early second century "Epistle of Barnabus" makes much use of the Book of Enoch. Second and Third Century leaders, including Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Origin and Clement of Alexandria all reference it. Tertullian (160-230 A.D.) even called the Book of Enoch "Holy Scripture". The Ethiopic Church even added the Book of Enoch to its official canon. It was widely known and read the first three centuries after Christ. This and many other books became discredited after the Council of Laodicea. And being under ban of the authorities, afterwards it gradually passed out of circulation. Later theologians disliked it because of its content regarding the nature and actions of fallen angels. The Reformers, influenced by the Jewish canon of Old Testament, also considered it as non-canonical and thus it was removed from the Protestant Bible. Catholics apparently do consider the book of Enoch as canonical, as one of 12 of the 15 they accept. http://yourgoingtohell.com/enoch.html http://reluctant-messenger.com/enoch.htm

The Book of Enoch is an apocryphal and pseudepigraphic text. It is falsely ascribed to Enoch. Produced probably sometime during the second and first centuries B.C.E., it is a collection of extravagant and unhistorical Jewish myths, evidently the product of exegetical elaborations on the brief Genesis reference to Enoch. This alone is sufficient for lovers of God’s inspired Word to dismiss it.

Loads of books didn't make it in. The Revelation Of Saint John only just made it in itself as it was nearly considered a bit too wacky. I think it was only because they mis-attributed the work that it was included. Researching The Council Of Nicaea is a good place to start. That's when Constantine decided he needed to get this religion organised. :)

ah wolfen, people like you crack me up, your comment in not worthy of an answer.

the ones that made it were written under the INSPIRATION of God, He made sure we have what we need, we can know all we need to know...