[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.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your post!

It may be that ol' Enoch is all alone in this one.

Indeed, I haven't found anything to pre-date his remark about the death of stars by their becoming lightening. But we haven't heard from RadioAstronomer yet.

I think your links will help a lot in my next project which will be the last curious observation I had in reading the 1 Enoch book of astronomy:

There is a reference to the end of all that there is (and beginning) which sounds like a singularity: in chapter 18 a place with no measure and no content, a pit "where the heavens come together." He records that the angel explained [v. 14] "this is the ultimate end of heaven and earth; it is the prison house for the stars and the powers of heaven…"