The Book of the Watchers is the oldest section of 1 Enoch, a Jewish apocalyptic text from roughly the third to second centuries BCE, preserved among the Dead Sea Scrolls. It takes Genesis 6 and fills in what that spare passage leaves out: the fallen angels, called Watchers, do not simply take human wives — they teach humanity metalworking, weapons, sorcery, and astrology. Forbidden knowledge descends from heaven and corrupts civilization. It is the same narrative logic as Prometheus: transgression of the divine-human boundary, technology as the instrument of corruption, catastrophe as the result. Read alongside Genesis 3, it offers a second, more cosmic account of how evil entered the world.