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time of Jesus. The earliest known surviving fragments and
quotations in various languages show that this is the same book,

and that the Ethiopians have preserved it well. In the end I was
convinced that the book is really Enoch’s true account of otherwise
forgotten events that occurred in early times; events that we have

no other surviving records of.

Enoch left us a book that describes people of an advanced culture;
blond haired people that Enoch’s people considered to be Angels
of God, and it was written on the angels’ instruction. The standard

academic view seems to be that some slightly demented religious
fanatic wrote the book - not long before the earliest provable
fragments, (200 or 300 BC). I think it is impossible to support this

view. Such an author would have to be able to write the entire
book from the point of view of a person who knows nothing of
countries with names, or religions with names. Then he goes on

to describe the Angels as blond men, who ran away from Heaven
in order to be promiscuous with women. I don’t believe this is the

sort of world view that would have been well received or widely
accepted anywhere in 200 BC. This plus the all too accurate
prophecies are probably the reasons why it was ‘lost’ by the

religions that used to regard it as holy.

I concluded that the book is probably what it appears to be; well
preserved, ancient and genuine. Enoch was the great-grandfather
of Noah, and father of Methuselah, and his book gives a unique

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