"... Among the other notable parallels with the Astronomical Book is the theme of heavenly books, which is here situated in the seventh heaven—the location of God’s throne (2 Enoch 20:3) and the culmination of Enoch’s ascent in the short recension of 2 Enoch. There, God tells the angel Vereveil to “bring out the books from the storehouses, and give a pen to Enoch and read him the books” (2 Enoch 22:11), so that Enoch can be told “all the deeds of the Lord, the earth and the sea, and all the elements and the courses and the life, and the changes of the years and the movements of the days, and the earthly commands and instructions, and the sweet-voiced singing and the coming of the clouds and the blowing of the winds, and the Hebrew language ... everything that was appropriate to learn” (2 Enoch 23:1–2). This is said to take place in thirty days and nights of learning, and thirty days and nights of writing, and to yield 360 books. If such a description recalls the Book of the Watchers’ celebration of Enoch as “scribe of righteousness,” its language and details track even more closely with the Astronomical Book — where the process of revelation is described in totalizing terms as seeing, reading, and writing: not only is Enoch there shown heavenly cycles and heavenly tablets by the angel Uriel (1 Enoch 81:1), but he is explicitly described as stopping to write down what he has seen (1 Enoch 72:1; 74:2), so as to be able to pass his knowledge in writing to Methusaleh and future generations (1 Enoch 82:1) ..."