Paleojudaica has posted pointers to a few (legally!) free books on his blog; here we'll look at Daise & Hartman. First up is Eric Noffke's fascinating take on the primordial human.
Namely: there was a primordial human. Genesis 2:5+ is retconned before Genesis 1, basically; as to make this human, Adam. Sirach 49:16 would be that stage. Lilith seems unknown as yet, or to be ignored. Ezekiel 28:1-19 and Job 15:7-8 might exist before Genesis One was even composed, which might appeal to Russel Gmirkin who's been arguing that Genesis One belongs to the Greeks.
Mostly Noffke is interested in the Enochians. The Book of Watchers assumes that man and woman are weak in the face of angelic temptation; but the Dream Visions in its Animal Apocalypse form proposes man as a white bull who, unfortunately, sometimes breeds false. This, AA implies, because Eve had come out of the earth, not from Adam's rib and not from Divine creation. Spicy!
- so I checked in on Jubilees 2-3. First God created all the angels on the first day, Eden on the third, and man-and-woman only on the sixth. Jubilees 3 has then-unnamed woman (re?)created on the following week; Adam names her "my-wife" (lol). Adam only grants to his wife her own name (Eve) after leaving Eden.
This reads, to me, that Jubilees follows Watchers (and the Torah); not the Animal Apocalypse. Jubilees' Adam is just, well... a man. He is not a luminous being and he can sin like anyone else. Add that Jubilees 4 has not been found in Qumran and I'm seeing a bolster to Dugan, that Jubilees might not even know the Animal Apocalypse in any form.
If Dugan is right or, at least, arguable then Noffke, I suggest, could have postponed his take on Enoch 90 (also not Qumranian) until after his take on Enoch 93 (Qumranian).
BACKDATE 6/13
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