[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the link and the excerpts!!!

It appears the concept of orbits had just been proposed (150 B.C.) without much success towards the end of the time frame the Qumran scrolls were copied (200-150 B.C.)

Do you find any of the other astronomical observations in Enoch curious given its antiquity?

[Right Wing Professor]

I read through it briefly. There were a lot of passages about stars that I glanced at but didn't carefully examine. Let me read it carefully and get back to you. My cousin's a fairly well known archaeologist, so I guess this stuff's in the blood.

There seems to be somewhat of a mystery about when orbits were really proposed. Ptolemy clearly used the idea, which says no later than 150 BC, but I gather it's not clear how much older the idea was. I'm at work at the moment, and most of my history books are at home.

I did find this at NASA.

http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/a11846.html