Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>]

At 12:02 AM 12/29/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>At 05:53 AM 12/29/99 +0100, Ian Hutchesson wrote:
>>But the obscurity of the Genesis citations (5:21-24, 6:1-4)
>>tells you that the Enoch literature was around and used.
>This does not follow.  The obscurity of these citations could
>just as well have motivated the speculation we see in the Enoch
>literature.

That is also true. Enoch could also represent oral traditions that were
finally redacted at a later date.

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