Assumption of Moses. 1400 BC
Moses dying words to Joshua
Chapter 1
15. And now I tell you that the time of the years of my life is finished and I pass to sleep with my fathers in the sight of all the people. 3 • . . 16. And read thou 4 this writing that thou mayest have regard to the safe-keeping of the books, 5 17. Which I shall deliver thee, which thou shalt arrange and smear with oil of cedar, and lay up in vessels of earthenware in the place which God made from the beginning of the creation of the world 18. That His Name might be called on (there) even to the day of repentance in the visitation, 1 wherewith the Lord will visit them in the consummation of the end of the days.
The books would of included 1 Enoch. Has prophecy about Jesus at the end. The dead sea scrolls were found in earthenware jars near Jerusalem which is the place God chose to visit as Jesus Christ. Hebrews 1 defines last/end of days as Jesus Christ 2000 years ago.
Jubilees written by Moses 1400 BC.
Chapter 7 about Abraham.
And the Lord God said: 'Open his mouth and his ears, that he may hear and speak with his mouth, with the language which has been revealed'; for it had ceased from the mouths of all the children of men from the day of the 26 overthrow (of Babel). And I opened his mouth, and his ears and his lips, and I began to speak 27 with him in Hebrew in the tongue of the creation. And he took the books of his fathers, and these were written in Hebrew, and he transcribed them, and he began from henceforth to study them, and I made known to him that which he could not (understand), and he studied them during the six 28 rainy months.
One of the books of his fathers would of been 1 Enoch. Abrahams life was around 2175 BC - 2000 BC.
Jubilees
Chapter 21
10 Eat its meat on that day and on the second
day, but do not let the sun go down on it until
it is eaten. Let nothing be left over for the
third day, for it is not acceptable. Let it no
longer be eaten, and all who eat of it will bring
sin on themselves, for thus I have found it
written in the books of my forefathers, and in
the words of Enoch, and in the words of
Noah.
Those quotes are not in 1 Enoch so is lost works of Enoch, and Noah.
Jubilees Chapter 8
1
In the twenty-ninth jubilee, in the beginning
of first week, Arpachshad took to himself a
wife and her name was Rasu’eja, the daughter
of Susan, the daughter of Elam, and she gave
birth to a son in the third year in this week,
and he called his name Kainam.
2
The son grew, and his father taught him
writing, and he went to seek for himself a place
where he might seize a city for himself.
3
3
He found writing which former generations
had carved on a rock, and he read what was on
it, and he transcribed it and sinned because of
it, for it contained the teaching of the
Watchers, which they had used to observe the
omens of the sun and moon and stars in all the
signs of heaven.
4
He wrote it down and said nothing of it, for
he was afraid to speak to Noah about it or he
would be angry with him because of it
It is unclear how those writings were on a rock postflood. The 8 people on the ark would not of taken sinful writings aboard the ark as they were all righteous. It sounds like former generations means from before the flood as Cainan was only 4th generation from Noah.
More lost writings of Noah:
“And Noah wrote down all things in a book as we instructed him concerning every kind of medicine. Thus the evil spirits were precluded from (hurting) the sons of Noah. “And he gave all that he had written to Shem, his eldest son; for he loved him exceedingly above all his sons” (Jubilees 10:10–14).
Dead sea scrolls Genesis apocryphon. Written by Lamech, Noah, Enoch, Abraham. Abraham reads Enoch when in Egypt.
But after those five years, three men who were princes of Egypt [came … …] of Pharaoh Zoa[n] about my affairs and about my wife, and they presented [me numerous gifts and aske]d m[e to teach them] values, wisdom, and truth. So I read in their presence the [book of] the words of [En]och [… … …] in the famine which [… … 1 ½ lines garbled … …] with much eating and [much] drinking [… … ] wine [… … … remainder of column, approximately 6-7 lines, lost … …].
"A Biblical Chronology" from the Dead Sea Scrolls, 4Q559 Col. 2 M.Wise Trans.
"Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he fathered Isaac. Isaac was sixty years old when he fathered Jacob. Jacob was sixty-five years old when he fathered Levi. He gave to Levi the Book of the Words of Enoch to preserve and pass on".
Enoch 7th from Adams writings were given to Noah, and handed down from Noah sons to Abraham from Abraham sons down to Levi from Levi down to Moses, and then all the way down to the Israelites 300 BC that put some biblical writings in jars near Jerusalem -the dead sea scrolls. There would of been a lot of writings in the temple that got destroyed 70 AD also back in 586 BC. Maybe some are still buried somewhere who knows.
1 Enoch chapter 104
12 And again I know a second mystery, that to the righteous and pious and wise my books will be given for the joy of righteousness and much wisdom. 13 Indeed, to them the books will be given,and they will believe in them, and in them all the righteous will rejoice and be glad, to learn from them all the paths of truth.
Josephus Book 1, Chapter 2, 68-71. Note: He seems to have confused Enoch with Seth here.
.Now this Seth...did leave children behind him who imitated his virtues.... They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars; the one of brick, the other of stone: they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind; and also inform them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them.
Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day.
Berossus. "FRAGMENTS OF CHALDÆAN HISTORY, BEROSSUS: FROM ALEXANDER POLYHISTOR. OF THE COSMOGONY AND DELUGE."
Xisuthrus was another Babylon name for Noah. He is called other names in some of their other stories.
After the death of Ardates, his son Xisuthrus reigned eighteen sari. In his time happened a great Deluge; the history of which is thus described. The Deity, Cronus, appeared to him in a vision, and warned him that upon the fifteenth day of the month Dæsius there would be a flood, by which mankind would be destroyed. He therefore enjoined him to write a history of the beginning, procedure, and conclusion of all things; and to bury it in the city of the Sun at Sippara; and to build a vessel, and take with him into it his friends and relations; and to convey on board every thing necessary to sustain life, together with all the different animals; both birds and quadrupeds, and trust himself fearlessly to the deep. Having asked the Deity, whither he was to sail? he was answered,6 "To the Gods:" upon which he offered up a prayer for the good of mankind. He then obeyed the divine admonition: and built a vessel five stadia in length, and two in breadth. Into this he put every thing which he had prepared; and last of all conveyed into it his wife, his children, and his friends.
They, who remained within, finding that their companions did not return, quitted the vessel with many lamentations, and called continually on the name of Xisuthrus. Him they saw no more; but they could distinguish his voice in the air, and could hear him admonish them to pay due regard to religion; and likewise informed them that it was upon account of his piety that he was translated to live with the gods; that his wife and daughter, and the pilot, had obtained the same honour. To this he added, that they should return to Babylonia; and, as it was ordained, search for the writings at Sippara, which they were to make known to all mankind: moreover that the place, wherein they then were, was the land of Armenia. The rest having heard these words, offered sacrifices to the gods; and taking a circuit, journeyed towards Babylonia.
The vessel being thus stranded in Armenia, some part of it yet remains in the Corcyræan7 mountains of Armenia; and the people scrape off the bitumen, with which it had been outwardly coated, and make use of it by way of an alexipharmic and amulet. And when they returned to Babylon, and had found the writings at Sippara, they built cities, and erected temples: and Babylon was thus inhabited again.—Syncel. Chron. 28.—Euseb. Chron. 5. 8.
This is from a website article called: Overshadowed by Enoch’s Greatness: “Two Tablets” Traditions from the Book of Giants to Palaea Historica
I can't find the text they cite online so I don't know the date of the text
The Armenian History of the Forefathers 40-44 deals with the two stelae story. In 45 the narrative continues with the description of Enosh’s preaching:
"40 Sixth, because he [Enosh] set up two pillars against the sons of Cain, these are hope and good works, which they did not have.
41 Seventh, that he made writings and wrote on stela(e) of baked brick and bronze, and he prophesied that the earth will pass through water and fire on account of the sins of humans. And he cast the baked brick into the water and the bronze into the fire, in order to test (them), if the fire was to come first, the bronze would melt, and if the water was to come first, the brick would be destroyed. And by this means he learned that the water was destined to come, and then fire. And these are a work of hope.
42 And the writings on the two stelae told the names of all things, for he knew that by lispers, stutterers and stammerers the language was destined to be corrupted.
43 And they confused and changed the names of the objects that had come into being, which Adam had named and fixed. On this account he wrote (them) on the two stelae and left them, so that if the water came first and destroyed the pillar of baked brick, the bronze writing and names of things would remain, so that after the flood and the passing of times it might come to use.
44 Likewise, also if the fiery flood[42] and the bronze (i.e., stele) melted and ruined the writing, the earthen one might remain more baked. And this is a true action of hope.
45 Eighth, that Enosh preached to his sons to take on a celibate and immaculate way of life, for the sake of the just recompense of God. Two hundred persons, having learned this from him, remembered the life of paradise and established a covenant for themselves to live purely. And they were called “sons of God” on account of hope and of being busy with heavenly desire. For the glory of Christ, our hope."[43]
Ancient authors: Eupolemos,
FGrHist 723 F1a-b, as summarized by Alexander Polyhistor (mid-first century BCE),
FGrHist 273 F19a, and later cited by Eusebius of Caesarea,
Preparation for the Gospel 9.26.1 (+ Clement of Alexandria,
Stromata 23.153.4) and 9.17.2-9 (early fourth century CE) (
link;
link to Greek;
link to
FGrHist).
Comments: The fragments of Eupolemos’ work that were cited by Alexander Polyhistor in the mid-first century BCE focus on presenting the Israelite figures Abraham and Moses as the source of knowledge and astrology that was passed on to other civilizations, including Phoenicians, Egyptians and Greeks. In this way, ancestors of Israelites and Judeans are presented as the ultimate wise foreigners. The inherent competition with other ethnic groups who made similar claims of civilizational priority is evident. On Abraham and astrology, it is noteworthy that astrological works attributed to Abraham circulated before Vettius Valens wrote in the mid-second century CE (see
Anthologies 2.29-30 [external
link]).
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[Fragment 1, on Moses’ introduction of the alphabet and laws (Eusebius, Preparation 9.26.1 and Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 23.153.4)]
That is what Polyhistor states on this subject. Concerning Moses, the same author again presents many things, which are worth hearing: “Eupolemus states that the first wise man was Moses. He was the first to teach the Judeans letters for writing, and the Phoenicians received them from the Judeans, and the Greeks received them from the Phoenicians. Also, Moses was the first to give written laws to the Judeans.”
In his work
On the Kings of Judea, Eupolemus says that Moses was the first wise man and the first person to transmit to the Judeans letters for writing, and Phoenicians received them from Judeans, and Greeks received them from Phoenicians.
[Fragment sometimes attributed to “Pseudo-Eupolemos,” on Abraham’s introduction of astrological knowledge to Phoenicians and Egyptians (Eusebius, Preparation 9.17.2-9) = FGrHist 724 F1]
In his work on the Judeans, Eupolemus states that the city of Babylon in Assyria was first founded by those who escaped from the flood, and that they were giants and built the tower renowned in history. But when the tower had been destroyed by the act of God, the giants were dispersed over the whole earth. He states that in the tenth generation, Abraham, who surpassed all men in nobility and wisdom, was born in Camarina, a city of Babylonia, which some others say was the city Uria (which means the city of the Chaldeans) but in the thirteenth generation. Abraham was also the inventor of astrology and Chaldaean wisdom, and pleased God well by his enthusiasm for piety.
Because of God’s commands, this man came and settled in Phoenicia, and pleased their king by teaching the Phoenicians the movements of the sun and moon and everything like that. Afterwards the Armenians invaded the Phoenicians and, when they had been victorious and had taken his nephew prisoner, Abraham came to the rescue with his household-slaves, prevailed over the captors, and made prisoners of the wives and children of the enemies. When ambassadors came to Abraham asking if he would ransom them for money, he did not choose to trample on the unfortunate but returned the ones he had captured, taking only food for his young men. He was also received as a guest by the city in the temple Argarizin (Gerizim), which means “Mountain of the Most High,” and received gifts from Melchizedek, who was the king and the priest of God.
But when a famine struck, Abraham moved to Egypt with his whole household and settled there. The king of Egypt married Abraham’s wife, since Abraham said that she was his sister. Eupolemos also related fully that the king was unable to have intercourse with her, and that his people and his household were perishing. After he had called for the diviners (
manteis), they said that the woman was not a widow. So the king of Egypt learned that she was Abraham’s wife, and gave her back to her husband.
Abraham lived with the Egyptian priests in Heliopolis and taught them many things. It was Abraham who introduced astrology and other similar things to them, saying that the Babylonians and himself had found these things out, but Abraham traced the first discovery back to Enoch. Abraham was saying that Enoch, and not the Egyptians, had first invented astrology. For the Babylonians say that the first man was Belos, who is Kronos; that Belos had the sons Belos and Canaan; and, that this Canaan had the ancestor of the Phoenicians, whose son was Kush (who is called “Asbolos” [literally “Sooty”] by the Greeks). Kush was the ancestor of the Ethiopians [i.e. literally burnt-skinned ones] and a brother of Mestraim, the ancestor of the Egyptians. Now the Greeks say that Atlas invented astrology, but this Atlas is the same as Enoch. The son of Enoch was Methuselah, who learned all things from angels of God, and this is the way knowledge came to us.
Enoch learned all things from angels of God not Methuselah in case that wording is confusing.
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Source of the translation: E.H. Gifford,
Eusebius: Preparation for the Gospel (Oxford: Clarendon, 1903), public domain, was used as the base for a new translation by Harland, based the critical edition of the Greek by K. Mras,
Eusebius: Die Praeparatio evangelica, 2 vols. (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1954).
It seems probably that Enochs writings were written on clay, and stone tablets or stela, taken on the ark, then erected in the ground afterwards for everyone to read until eventually Abraham copied them on to a more portable medium (vellum or papyrus) which he then took to Babylon, taught them astronomy, then went to Egypt, and taught the Egyptians astronomy.
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