I find ancient manuscripts to be very illuminating. Enoch for instance offers the backdrop for Genesis 6, i.e. what led to the Noah flood. Another book in Charlesworth's Pseudepigrapha offers the backdrop for Genesis 12, i.e. events preceding Abraham's being called. Another in the collection offers the backdrop for Satan's attitude towards Job. And so on.
Of course not all ancient manuscripts are created equal. Some are absurd folk lore. Some are interesting, showing what the Rabbis thought way back when. And some are piercingly relevant such as Enoch which is quoted directly and indirectly in the New Testament.
But not everyone has the same interest in ancient manuscripts. The important part is to follow the Spirit's leading, including whether or not to explore such things and to what end.
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. - I John 2:27
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned. - I Corinthians 2:14
Finally got a used copy on the way.
Thx Thx.
Thank you for the information that you shared...my interest is raised enough to look at Enoch and “test” it against the Scriptures.
Thank you and God bless