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1 | concerningthe in-between writings of God | Bible general Archive 3 | wisdom111 | 173897 | ||
has anyone read the "Lost Book of Eden"? | ||||||
2 | concerningthe in-between writings of God | Bible general Archive 3 | DocTrinsograce | 173898 | ||
Dear Wisdom, I believe you mean "The Lost Books of Eden." This is a collection of Jewish pseudopygraphal works. I've scanned through them. My forefathers tended to fill history with lots of stuff like this. It's hard to find the time to look at it all, and even harder to justify the time to do so. It shouldn't surprise us to see pseudopygraphal books out there, though. Nowadays we crank out junk a thousand times faster than Gutenberg ever would have imagined. Maybe a thousand years from now -- should the Lord tarry -- someone will dig up a Wal-Mart store and uncover 9,000 copies of "The Prayer of Jabez" and think, "Wow, hidden wisdom of the ancients!" :-) Did you have a particular question about this particular collection? In Him, Doc |
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3 | concerningthe in-between writings of God | Bible general Archive 3 | MJH | 173936 | ||
Doc, The value of the pseudopygraphal works are primarily in helping us understand what some people in history were thinking. So some books written near the time of Paul's writting, might help us know what Paul was confronting. The same is true for Jesus and the early church fathers, etc... But you are right, to read it all is for most of us not the best way to use your study time. Maybe if you are a professor of that time period or a scholor like many I admire, but I certainly do not have the time to pour over every one of those books. MJH |
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