[Alamo-Girl]

For anyone following the Enoch research, I just finished reading one of the larger resources on the links provided by PatrickHenry and wanted to make a few notes for the thread.

It appears the ancients - thousands of years before Qumran - followed meteor activity very closely both as omens and in order to collect the iron. Some of them call the meteors "falling stars" - but nowhere have I found any indication that they believed stars could die.

So, I'm still looking for the first notion that stars arise and die by becoming "lightening."

[PatrickHenry]

So, I'm still looking for the first notion that stars arise and die by becoming "lightening."

It's an odd notion. I don't recall ever reading anything else like it. Meteors (so-called shooting stars, perhaps thought to be dying stars) are quite unlike lightning. And novae are obviously not lightning. It may be that ol' Enoch is all alone in this one.

[Nataku X]

Alamo-Girl, I am about 1/3ths through the Book of Enoch. I am overwhelmed by it. Certainly does knit up many things in both the Old Testament and the New Testament very nicely! Will post initial thoughts on it after I finish it. Thank you ever so much for pointing me to it, and please do continue posting your research thoughts. :o)

[JesseShurun]

So, I'm still looking for the first notion that stars arise and die by becoming "lightening."

So much "light(ning)" so little time to comprehend just what the heck old Enoch was suggesting! Oh well, narrow is the path and few there are that find it (on their own)