[mitch5501]

"Very exciting stuff."

When I first read Enoch a lot of it gave me the impression of being written by someone with a fairly modern take on prophecy trying to make it sound like Old Testement writing...if that makes any sense.

[RoosterRedux]

The problem with that is that fragments of the Book of Enoch were part of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumran and were dated to several hundred years before the time of Christ.

It sounds new, but is very, very old.

[sparklite2]

trying to make it sound like Old Testement writing

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It makes a lot of sense. Prolepsis is the practice of predicting the past. That is, writing which purports to have taken place before some event occurs, prophesying the event as if it were in the future. It’s hard to be a caught as false prophet if you’re predicting what’s already happened.