Enoch (ancestor of Noah) Enoch (ancestor of Noah) Enoch () is of the Antediluvian period in the Hebrew Bible. Enoch was son of Jared and fathered Methuselah. This Enoch is not to be confused with Cain's son Enoch (). The text of the Book of Genesis says Enoch lived 365 years before he was taken by God. The text reads that Enoch "walked with God: and he was no more; for God took him" (), which some Christians interpret as Enoch's entering Heaven alive. Enoch is the subject of many Jewish and Christian traditions. He was considered the author of the "Book of Enoch"
Ark of the Covenant revered as a voice of their God, and was used as a weapon of great power, sweeping enemies aside. In his book "The Lost Ark of the Covenant" (2008), Parfitt also suggests that the Ark was taken to Arabia following the events depicted in the Second Book of Maccabees, and cites Arabic sources which maintain it was brought in distant times to Yemen. One Lemba clan, the Buba, which was supposed to have brought the Ark to Africa, have a genetic signature called the Cohen Modal Haplotype. This suggests a male Semitic link to the Levant. Lemba tradition maintains that