Ar-Lamech of Sirap's Songs Rescued from the Deluge

Elihu, however, is not the only antediluvian Antediluvian (vor der Sündflut) Literally "before the deluge," referring to the era between the Creation and the Great Flood. Eighteenth-century scholars were fascinated by the idea of "lost" knowledge from this first age of humanity. writer whose name has been preserved down to our times. Without even mentioning Adam, whom some consider the author of the 92nd Psalm; to say nothing of the books attributed to Seth Seth was the third son of Adam and Eve. In various mystical and apocryphal traditions, he was credited with inventing writing or astrology.; fragments of a book are cited from the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs An apocryphal collection of "last wills" attributed to the sons of Jacob. It was widely read and debated by theologians of the time. which Enoch is said to have composed long before Noah. The holy Apostle Jude In the New Testament (Jude 1:14–15), the author explicitly quotes from the Book of Enoch, which gave the text significant historical weight despite its exclusion from the standard Bible. says that he was a prophet, or at least the author of a certain prophecy that is said to have been 4,082 lines long. It is added that Noah carefully preserved these in his Ark. The Ethiopians boast that they possess the works of Enoch The "Book of Enoch" was indeed lost to the Western world for centuries until traveler James Bruce brought copies from Ethiopia in 1773, not long before or after this text was likely written.. The Arabs attribute to him those works which the Egyp-