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Wednesday, September 02, 2020

Grunge Enoch

OLD TESTAMENT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA WATCH: MESSED UP STORIES FROM THE BOOK OF ENOCH [link corrected) (Benito Cereno, Grunge).

I didn't have high expectations when I started reading this piece. But once I started, I couldn't stop. It is actually quite a good summary of the books of 1-2-3 Enoch by someone who has read them carefully.

The essay does concentrate on the weird and lurid aspects of the books. But that adds up to summarizing their main points. Worth a read.

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