The Book of Enoch has survived in
various copies, although only exists in complete form in the langauge
of Ge'ez. It oldest surviving copy has been dated to have been
written somewhere between 300 B.C. and 100 A.D. , although it could
be said that it originates from earlier texts (unfortunately there is
no proof of such a statement). It was rejected by Judaism and
Christianity due to its content, despite the book being refered to by
Jude 14-15.
Indeed there are some strange things
that are said in the book which could paint a different view on some
important issue. The book basically covers the story of Enoch and
his family, mentioning his grandfather, his sons and grandsons.
The first strange notion is that
mankind was supposed to not step outside nature, and it was the
leaving of nature that brought with it a curse. In fact the Adam &
Eve story is painted totally different “tree of wisdom...they
learnt wisdom...eyes were opened...they knew that they were naked”.
The second strange notion is that it
claims the cause of the Great Flood as being something which caused a
smell of sulphur, that there was a great melting of ice which
re-froze afterwards (a melting of the ice caps?). A third
suggestions was that there is amention that they did not eat blood,
basically meaning that they were all vegetarians.
The book also contains detailed
knowledge of days of the year, varying lengths of the days between
winter and summer, with reference to portals (maybe some stone
alignment like Stone Henge), carries on to explain the moon cycles in
the year and another planetary object (most likely mars), also aware
of Solar Storms that work in cycles of varying violence.
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