In verse seventeen, Cain knew his wife and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. Cain killing Abel is the first recorded murder or homicide.
AUDIBLE BOOK OF ENOCH SERIES
Cain is the son of Adam and the brother of Abel. This Apocrypha Audio series contains The Apocrypha, The Book of I Enoch, and The Book of Jubilees. It is considered an apocryphal book as well as a part of the Pseudepigrapha (literally means falsely ascribed is a collection of works supposedly written by a biblical character), although it is not a part of the canonical. The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection Audio Books & Poetry. The first Enoch is the son of Cain, mentioned in Genesis 4. Beyond close parallels in the depictions of these figures, the connections between Metatron speculation and the Zoroastrian and Manichaean Yima traditions are supported by an identification of Yima with the son of man implied in two Sogdian fragments of the Manichaean Book of Giants. The Book of Enoch is considered to have been written by Enoch, the seventh from Adam. The figure of Enoch/Metatron was reimagined and reconfigured by the Babylonian authors so as to resemble local Yima traditions, though the process of translating and repackaging the figure of Enoch in the image of his Iranian counterpart was not merely a conscious act of comparison, in which an analogy is drawn in an attempt to highlight particular aspects common to both figures it was an expression of a more comprehensive discourse of identification. The article examines the reception and transmission of traditions about the figure of Enoch/Metatron in Sasanian Babylonia, and particularly the emergence of Metatron speculation in the Babylonian Talmud and 3 Enoch, by reading these traditions in light of Zoroastrian and Manichaean reports of the Iranian hero, Yima.
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