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The book of Jubilees and 1 Enoch both name Enoch’s wife, calling her Edni or Edna. This shared detail, not found in Genesis, points to an expanded literary tradition and connection between the two texts and reflects a broader effort in later Jewish exegesis to enrich biblical figures with additional background details.
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1 Enoch 85:3
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2 And Enoch raised his voice and spoke to his son Methuselah: 'To you, my son, I will speak: listen to my words--pay attention to the dream-vision of your father. 3 Before I married your mother Edna, I saw in a vision on my bed, and behold a bull emerged from the earth, and this bull was white; and after it came a heifer, and along with this heifer came forth two bulls, one of them black and the other red. 4 And the black bull attacked the red one and chased him across the earth, and then I could no longer see the red bull.
Date: 200-50 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Jubilees 4:20
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19 While he slept he saw in a vision what has happened and what will occur — how things will happen for mankind during their history until the day of judgment. He saw everything and understood. He wrote a testimony for himself and placed it upon the earth against all mankind and for their history. 20 During the twelfth jubilee, in its seventh week [582-88] he took a wife for himself. Her name was Edni, the daughter of Daniel, the daughter of his father's brother. In the sixth year of this week [587] she gave birth to a son for him, and he named him Methuselah. 21 He was, moreover, with God's angels for six jubilees of years. They showed him everything on earth and in the heavens — the dominion of the sun — and he wrote down everything.
Date: 150-100 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Jubilees 4:20 ... Enoch's wife, Jubilees notes, was Edni ... 'Edna' in 1 Enoch 85:3 ..."
Kugel, James L.
A Walk through Jubilees: Studies in the Book of Jubilees and the World of Its Creation
(p. 49) Brill, 2012
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