Subject: Re: Methods in biblical scholarship (Moshe)
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:41:04 -0500
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.