Re: Enoch

In a little volume, Hebrews for Everyone, Tom Wright says that Enoch
became a popular figure in Jewish writing a few centuries before Jesus.

Graham

John W Burgeson wrote:

>A question to my theologically-literate friends.
>
>We all know the story of Enoch. The writer of Hebrews suggests that he
>never died, but "God took him."
>
>My understanding from a pastor I very much respect is that this idea was
>a new one in the early A.D. and that it had never occurred to any of the
>Jewish writers before that. As far as they were concerned, Enoch just
>died at an earlier age than his contemporaries.
>
>I challenged my friend but he was pretty sure nobody had thought about
>that possibility prior to the writer of Hebrews. Absence of evidence is
>not conclusive, of course, but in this case it might be persuasive.
>
>Anyone know?
>
>Burgy
>
>Ubi Caritas
>
>
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Received on Thu Mar 25 11:17:36 2004