Essay #24: Enoch, the Prophet and Seer: The End of the Wicked and the...
This Essay relates the end of the end for the wicked, and the beginning of the beginning for the people of God who start to lay the foundation of Zion. Similar events are well-attested in the ancient...
View ArticleEssay #25: Enoch’s Grand Vision: A Chorus of Weeping (Moses 7:18–49)
Within the Book of Moses, the stories of rescue and exaltation in the accounts of Noah and Enoch share a common motif of water. On one hand, Noah’s waters are the waters of destruction, the floods of...
View ArticleEssay #26: Enoch’s Grand Vision: The Complaining Voice of the Earth (Moses...
In a previous Essay, we observed that three distinct parties weep for the wickedness of mankind: God, the heavens, and Enoch himself. In addition, a fourth party, the earth, complains and mourns—though...
View ArticleEssay #27: Enoch’s Grand Vision: The Weeping Voice of the Heavens (Moses...
In a previous Essay, we observed that three distinct parties weep for the wickedness of mankind: God, the heavens, and Enoch himself. In addition, a fourth party, the earth, complains and mourns—though...
View ArticleEssay #28: Enoch’s Grand Vision: The Weeping of Enoch (Moses 7:28–43)
The tradition of a weeping prophet is perhaps best exemplified by Jeremiah who cried out in sorrow: “Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for...
View ArticleEssay #29: Enoch’s Grand Vision: The Earth Shall Rest (Moses 7:60–69)
Having witnessed the abrupt end of the long-awaited coming of the Son of Man in His unexpected crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension; and having now understood that His presence on earth would not...
View ArticleEssay #30: Enoch’s Grand Vision: God Receives Zion unto Himself (Moses...
Enoch succeeded in bringing a whole people to be sufficiently “pure in heart” to fully live the final celestial law of consecration. In Zion, the “City of Holiness,” the people “were of one heart and...
View ArticleEnoch, the Book of Moses, and the Book of Giants
Professor Matthew Black and his wife Ethel came to Provo at the beginning of BYU’s Summer Term of 1977. He lectured twice—on Thursday, June 30, and on Friday, July 1. The titles of his topics were “The...
View ArticleMoses 6–7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses of Enoch’s Ministry
Abstract: The Book of Giants (BG), an Enoch text found in 1948 among the Dead Sea Scrolls, includes a priceless trove of stories about the ancient prophet and his contemporaries, including unique...
View ArticleThe Book of Moses as a Temple Text
Abstract: In this fascinating article, Jeff Bradshaw details how the Book of Moses might be understood as a temple text, including elements of temple architecture, furnishings, and ritual in the story...
View ArticleEnoch and the Gathering of Zion
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. Enoch and the Gathering of Zion: The Witness of Ancient Texts for Modern Scripture. Orem, Springville, and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central,...
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