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Have you read the Bible? Or the book being referenced at all? Enoch is very clearly a man. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik
by colineartheta 4y ago
Have you read the Bible? Or the book being referenced at all? Enoch is very clearly a man.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch
- akomtu 4y agoIt's a common technique to invent personalities to describe things you don't want to put in plain writing. Literal reading of the Bible, and similar books, won't reveal much.
- colineartheta 4y agoIt would be greatly appreciated if you could provide any scholarly evidence, or even a cited critical reading of the Book of Enoch, showing that this character (whom has been a noted point of contention and much thought and writing amongst theologians and secular researchers alike for millennia) is intended to be an invented metaphorical personality of the type that you described.
- moloch-hai 4y agoThey are all metaphorical. No one seriously imagines Adam, Noah, or Moses as historical, flesh-and-bone, people, any more than we imagine that of Paul Bunyan, Slue-foot Sue, or Hamlet. Jesus, too, BTW. Everything written as if of real events came at least two generations after the cult began.
- Minor49er 4y agoUsername checks out
- moloch-hai 4y agoAnd karma at 666. But it was supposed to be "morlock-hai".
- akomtu 4y agoThe academic literature is sterile in this regard: it's just circling around the theological dogma. I'm saying all this to evoke curiousity so others do some discovery on their own. I think that western scholars havent found much is because this kind of literature is fragmented across many nations and religions.