Modern scholars describe this book as pseudepigraphal, as it says it is written by "Rabbi Ishmael" who became a "high priest" after visions of ascension to Heaven.
However, he could not have been a High Priest of Israel, as he was born after the Siege of Jerusalem and associated destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.
An alternative attribution would be the earlier Tanna Ishmael ben Elisha, who lived through the Siege of Jerusalem.
[citation needed] Although 3 Enoch contains several Greek and Latin words, the book appears to have been originally written in Hebrew.
This Enoch, whose flesh was turned to flame, his veins to fire, his eye-lashes to flashes of lightning, his eye-balls to flaming torches, and whom God placed on a throne next to the throne of glory, received after this heavenly transformation the name Metatron.3 Enoch is not included in the biblical canon of any denomination of Judaism or Christianity.