👀 •Genesis points only to a crafty serpent in the Garden, yet the Book of Enoch (1 Enoch 69) names a specific fallen angel—Gadreel—as the one who “led astray Eve,” taught humanity “all the blows of death,” and introduced the first weapons of war (shields, armor, and swords). •This creates a striking tension with later Christian tradition: Revelation 12:9 equates Satan with “that ancient serpent,” while Enoch instead attributes Eve’s deception and the origin of martial violence to a named Watcher, highlighting how different textual layers fill the same narrative gaps in divergent ways. •The discrepancy is sharpened by internal inconsistency within Enoch itself—chapter 8 credits Azazel with teaching weapons and cosmetics—suggesting the book preserves overlapping or competing traditions rather than a single unified account of the fall. •The Ethiopian Orthodox Church uniquely preserved the complete Book of Enoch in Ge’ez long after it largely vanished from other traditions, keeping alive this alternative naming of Eve’s deceiver that most readers of Genesis never encounter. •The accompanying image places the serpent in the scene yet removes it as the whispering agent, visually underscoring Enoch’s claim that a fallen angel, not the animal, was the true source of the deception and the knowledge of killing.