Thank you Jeffrey. I have loved 1 and 2 Enoch, and since reading your articles, I have loved learning about Manichaeism. The religion itself reminds me of an apocryphal book; there are wonderful gems inside as well as interpolations. I see them as an attempt to stitch back together isolated truths that had been scattered. Now, Mani was not the prophet of the restoration, and I believe that some of his assumptions or premises are definitely incorrect, but watching him/them attempting to patch back together what had been scattered is very interesting. Obviously they were able to preserve some pearls that otherwise had been vaguely remembered but discarded.
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BoBJanuary 31, 2022
Thank you Jeffrey. I have loved 1 and 2 Enoch, and since reading your articles, I have loved learning about Manichaeism. The religion itself reminds me of an apocryphal book; there are wonderful gems inside as well as interpolations. I see them as an attempt to stitch back together isolated truths that had been scattered. Now, Mani was not the prophet of the restoration, and I believe that some of his assumptions or premises are definitely incorrect, but watching him/them attempting to patch back together what had been scattered is very interesting. Obviously they were able to preserve some pearls that otherwise had been vaguely remembered but discarded.
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