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Summary: Unfortunately, Lacking
Review: Overall I found this book disappointing. The basic premise of this book seems to be that the Book of Enoch was rejected/suppressed because it makes it quite clear that certain angels became fallen because of lust, not pride. And this is what was unacceptable to the church fathers who believed that angels where entirely spiritual and not capable of mating with anything physical. I think she makes her case well but I don't think this is much of a revelation if someone like me is already aware of this. The next and biggest disappointment was the translation of the Book of Enoch. Surely there must be a better translation in modern english available. Also the Biblical comparisons portion of the book didn't hold me at all. Great title, nice idea, but missed by alot. Too bad.
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Summary: Very poorly written
Review: The author adds little, if anything, of value to the works of others that she cites. What she does add is poorly written and sophmoric. I am embarrassed for both the editor (if there was one) and the publisher. If you managed to graduate high school, this book is beneath you...however, so as not to be needlessly elitist, if you belive you are capable of graduating high school, this book is beneath you! Buy the translated texts separately, and a get a nicer volume without inane embelishment. This "writer" is to be avoided at all costs.
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Summary: Back by Research of all Major Religions
Review: The Book of Enoch has 200 fallen angels called watches thrown out of heaven to earth who bred with earth women making giants. Wow! The giants run out of food so they eat people and drink the human blood to satify their hunger. Wow! The bad angels taught witchcraft to mankind. Wow! One of the reasons for Noah's flood reasons was to kill the giants. Wow!. The earth is still a battle field between the good "white" angels and the bad "black" angels and we are the collaterial damage. Wow! The Book was buried for 1000 years and now people use it to cure people and do spells. Fact! A must read for people who hear healers quote the Book of Enoch as Gospel. It is not recognized by any Major Religion. It is considered witchcraft! This is detailed in the book with good analysis. The entire actual book of Enoch is in the book and you can read for yourself to make up your own mind. Then go to your computer and do additional research and that will also back up the author's claims when you pull up Catholic research of the Book of Enoch, Cults, Devil worship, and other religions and their analysis of the Book of Enoch. Who was Enoch? Well he is supposed to have been Methuselah's father, who supposed to had lived 969 years near the time of Adam and Eve. Just an interesting tidbit. A must read!
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Summary: I mean, c'mon, her last name is Prophet
Review: The doctrine this woman espouses is sheer nonsense. She uses a healthy dose of speculation and mysticism and combines it with a grain of truth, and in the end (sadly) she would have an uninformed reader eating out of the palm of her hand. Look folks, take it from me, I've been reading what many people term "pseudo-history" for a decade now, and this type of unfounded garbage is what gives the entire subject a bad name. She and her lot do nothing but detract from the credibility of an otherwise logical and historically sound genre. The only reason I'd buy this book is the added translations of the Book of Enoch, the Book of the Secrets of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees. But if that's all you're after, I'd suggest the R.H. Charles translation (which is highly praised as the most authoritative) as opposed to Richard Laurence, who's a wee bit too fluffy for me. In conclusion, the whole work was heavy handed, extremely esoteric and chalk full of baseless mysticism and speculative trash. But what else would you expect from a woman who's last name is Prophet? ...good lord
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Summary: Waste of money
Review: The only thing of value in this book is that there is a copy of the Book of Enoch ( I wouldn't put my hands on the fire that this one is well translated though), the opinions of the author on the other hand are what you can expect of a fundamentalist christian that has done next to nil research.
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Summary: False Science
Review: This book is masquerading under false pretenses. How can you use one MYTH to verify another MYTH? This book assumes that what the Bible says about Angels is not true. Well, of course, it is not ture. There are no angels. Then it procedes to try to tell us that the reason Biblical angels may not be not true is that the suppressed Book of Enoch gives startling revelations about angels that are true. Give me a break! Give me several breaks!
What phony science.
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Summary: Fun and games with fallen angels
Review: This is not the space for comment on the author. Anyone wanting to know about Elizabeth Clare Prophet, her Church Universal Triumphant, and the Summit Lighthouse organization can very easily search for her own web pages on the net and form their own judgement. One thing you will not find in this book is a cogent examination of 'Why church fathers supressed the book of Enoch'. To write on such a subject one would have to know something about the formation of the Hebrew canon - an area in which Ms. Prophet clearly has not even taken the trouble to read the standard texts (such as Leiman, Wurthwein and Tov), and then on patristics (where R.H. Charles gives a decent summary of Origen, Jerome and other fathers' views on Enoch). However, on the positive side, for those who are looking for a copy of the Book of Enoch, some alternative suggestions: If you are looking for a general read about all the various traditions about the Enoch mentioned in Genesis and then taken up by various Jewish, Christian and Muslim writers since, the book for you is probably 'Enoch A Man for All Generations' by the eminent professor James Vanderkam, chairman of the Society for Biblical Literature. If you are looking for a scholarly and accurate translation of the original text of Book of Enoch as quoted in Jude 14, then the book for you is either the 1912 translation by R.H. Charles published (still) by SPCK, or the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Volume 1 ed. J.H. Charlesworth, and published by Doubleday 1983. Avoid the elderly 1821 translation by Rev. Richard Laurence if possible. If the SPCK version is out of print, there seem to be various 'reproduction' copies available from American New Age publishing houses. If you are looking for what the NT writers thought of the so-called 'Book of Enoch' read Luke 20:35-36, Titus 1:14, Heb 1:14, 2Pe. 2:16-20,3:3,3:10-12, Jude 8, and compare Jude 14 with 1En1:9 and Deut 33:2. (But you might still need a copy of Enoch to understand what Peter and Jude were getting so upset about). If you are looking for sensationalist stories about fallen angels then you probably will get more out of the vampire fiction of Anne Rice...
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