To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Methods in biblical scholarship (Moshe)
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 06:11:54 +0100
At 00.02 29/12/99 -0500, Stephen C. Carlson 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.
Then you will have to seek elsewhere for the substance to the Gen
citations, for they imply such substance that is not stated. Yet we have a
written tradition in Enoch that is acknowledged elsewhere.