Why do historians call people such as Enoch ‘mythical’? They are mentioned in contemporary texts, extant texts, so why say they are mythical? The mythical are only mythical until archaeologists can substantiate their existence beyond the contemporary texts such as the Sumerian king lists and scriptural texts such as the Book of Genesis and Book of Enoch. They just need more sources. So ‘mythical’ is a label. It is a misnomer because there is no evidence that these people were NOT real people. There is no evidence they were mythical in a true sense of the word. Lack of known evidence of existence is not evidence of non-existence. This is therefore a mistake on the part of historians and ordinary people who are influenced by these historians and their writings.
