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1 Enoch 85 begins a major section that contains an allegorical re-telling of biblical history, starting with the creation of Adam and going all the way through Israel's history through 2 Kings. It may also contain details from Ezra and Nehemiah.
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1000+ CE
Genesis 2:7
Hebrew Bible
7 The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. 8 The Lord God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed. 9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food. (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)
1 Enoch 85:2
Pseudepigrapha
1 And after this I saw another dream, and I will reveal the entire dream to you, my son. 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.
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Notes and References
"... The author of the Vision has constructed his allegory through the creative and tendentious use of traditional materials. The outline of Enoch's account of human history and most of its details have been drawn from the narrative biblical books: Genesis through 2 Kings, and perhaps Ezra-Nehemiah ..."
Nickelsburg, George W. E.
A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch Chapters 1-36, 81-108
(p. 358) Fortress Press, 2001
* The use of references are not endorsements of their contents. Please read the entirety of the provided reference(s) to understand the author's full intentions regarding the use of these texts.
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