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Originally Posted by Barnes
Like the Book of Enoch? I am recently fascinated by pre-flood history and how much different it appears to be...
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1 Enoch is definitely an important text for my research and for the study of the DSS generally. But there are other similar compositions such as
Jubilees and some of the lesser-known texts from the Scrolls themselves. My interest is much less in so-called primeval history—although quite often the various depictions of these stories is quite valuable for informing about the people who wrote them in the Second Temple period—and much more concerned with retellings of events that took place after the exile. E.g., the visions in Daniel 7–11, the Damascus Document, 1 Enoch and
Jubilees, the
Apocryphon of Jeremiah C,
Pseudo-Daniel are all texts that preserve alternative versions of the same events from the time of the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem to the emergence of the Hasmonean Dynasty. In my mind, this is easily one of the most interesting periods of ancient history, and one that is still not well understood.