[Right Wing Professor]

(From Enoch) That the light of the moon comes from the sun: "Then Uriel showed me another order (concerning) when light is beamed into the moon, from which direction of the bright sun it is beamed." 1 Enoch 78:10 .

That is interesting. I'm not sure when it was generally appreciated that the moon shines by reflected sunlight; I'll go see if I can find out.

[Alamo-Girl]

Yeehaw! I'm glad you found that curious also! I look forward to your digs.

[PatrickHenry]

I'm not sure when it was generally appreciated that the moon shines by reflected sunlight ...

I'm not sure what the Hebrews knew of such things, other than what appears in scripture, but the Greeks had all that stuff figured out by the time of Aristotle (around 300 BC), if not before. It seems quite obvious that they knew a lunar eclipse was caused by the earth's shadow. They determined the shape of the earth by the fact that it always casts a circular shadow on the moon during an eclipse (and only a sphere always casts a circular shadow).