“... Comparable to the setting in the Enochic narrative in the Book of the Watchers (see 1 Enoch 10:1-3), the Petrine author links the captive spirits to the time of the flood (1 Peter 3:20). Jesus’ encounter with the imprisoned beings in 1 Peter 3:19-20 is likened to Enoch’s viewing of places of punishment and intercession for the rebellious watchers. Nickelsburg extends the inventory of comparisons by identifying close verbal parallels that suggest to him that 1 Enoch 108 was known to a Petrine author. Let us take up briefly the points he makes. 1 Enoch 108 and 1 Peter encourage faithfulness in the midst of suffering with the promise of eventual compensation, and both employ similar expressions to communicate about these themes; we should note that 1 Enoch 108 is extant only in Ge’ez which Nickelsburg typically paraphrases for the sake of the list. References to ‘seed’ (or ‘offspring’) ‘that will perish forever’ (1 Enoch 108:3) and ‘perishable seed’ (1 Peter 1:23), to spirits slaughtered and kept in a desolate, burning place (1 Enoch 108:3-6) and ‘imprisoned spirits’ (1 Peter 3:19-20) ...”