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The literature
associated with ENOCH
indicates the willingness of Jewish writers
in the Graeco~Roman period
to collect or create
traditions of wisdom
in the form of revelations
about the future
and with the authority
of well~known ancient figures,
and the tendency
to imbue these characters
with great piety
and foresight.

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Jubilees
consists formally
of a revelation to Moshe
by an angel on Sinai,
while Enoch learns
from his travels
to heaven.

The
Genesis Apocryphon
dwells on the virtues of Noah and Avraham;
and Noah himself is the subject
of many other fragmentary texts,
perhaps because,
as the survivor of the last great {Black Sea?}
worldwide devastation,
he was a model
for those who expected
to be saved
from the coming {Sarotini/Thera?}
judgment.
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A popular
literary form was the Testament,
a farewell speech or death~bed
admonition.

The Qumran caves,
especially Cave 4,
have preserved fragments of portions of testaments
ascribed
to Naphtali {4Q215} and to Judah {3Q7; 4Q484; 4Q538}
~ possibly parts of a cycle of
12 Testaments
of the Patriarchs,
such as later existed
in Greek.

There are also
Testaments of Joseph {4Q539},
Amram {4Q543~48}
and Qahat {4Q542,
and Ya'akov addresses his priestly son Levi
in the socalled Aramaic Levi Document
{4Q213~14}.

Most of these
combine ethical instruction with
predictions of
the future.

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Words
assigned to Moshe
are plentiful,
and there are also apocrypha of Joshua,
Samuel, Elisha, Zedekiah
and Yirmeyahu,
as well as Pseudo~Ezekiel &
Pseudo~Daniel
texts.

If not
all these
can be confidently attributed
owing to their fragmentary nature,
the cumulative evidence
is strong
that such attribution
was popular.

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David traditions
are also represented in 11QP's},
which presents him as a wise man
whose prolific production of psalms and songs
came through prophecy.
2Q22, apparently the words of a mighty warrior,
is also possibly connected
with David.

The proliferation
of such traditions shows
that the scriptures far from exhausted
the stock of stories
about Israel's past:
indeed,
they seem to have inspired
a great deal of
creativity.

On the other hand,
some of the non~scriptural texts
may be as ancient as any scriptural ones
and may have originated
independently

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What it
boils down to is,
that we all use the styles,
words and traditions
that are available to us:
sometimes an original feeling,
idea
or action comes
through
the
veil
of time and space,
but generally we are what we are
~ humans with 'different' backgrounds,
living under 'different' circumstances
and
expecting a 'different'
or not so different
future.

History
has almost destroyed
the traces of our common past,
but if we look at them carefully,
we still have lots of feelings,
ideas and
actions
that we CAN share
and
'understand',
even if we seem to be 2,000 years
apart.

Somehow
we need an income
to be able to survive;
we have to have certain traditions and values in common
in order to be
able to talk and work together,
and what we eat,
drink and
'do'
forms
our future in the days and years
to come.

Hopefully
we DON'T have to repeat
the mistakes
of the past
that took us near total oblivion
and destruction of
everything worthwhile
to live for.

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