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I don't know exactly how much you know about the Enoch issue, of course, but where one comes out on Genesis 9 and the Sons of God changes a great deal about how the Old Testament is understood (i.e., the reason for the Flood, the reason why God commanded Joshua and many OT leaders to wipe out entire bloodlines of certain enemies--down to and including livestock, and the very existence of giants after the Flood).

One's understanding that the Sons of God in Gen 6 are angels ("Bene Elohim" or, in Hebrew, בני האלהים was used exclusive by the writers of the OT to mean angels) introduces the stratagem of Satan to pollute the bloodline of man and thereby preclude God's plan to introduce Jesus as a human product of a man and a woman.

That's the reason for the Flood and the selection of Noah (Noah's being still genetically unpolluted).

Anyway, you are probably already aware of all this, but, in case you aren't, it is one of the most exciting controversies in the Bible today.

I don't think there is much controversy over whether or not the Book of Enoch is or ought to be included in the canon, but there is a massive amount of controversy over whether or not it ought to be studied as authoritative ancient Hebrew Lore that sheds light over the truth about Fallen Angels.

This is what the Book of Jude does. It reminds the readers of the New Testament about the Book of Enoch (and quotes the Book of Enoch about the Fallen Angels) as a preface for the next and most mysterious Book of the New Testament...the Apocalypse of John (Book of Revelation).

Very exciting stuff.