The Sacred Clock Collection-The Elder Witness

Three books stood beside the Scriptures in the libraries of the faithful for centuries -- quoted by Jude, treasured at Qumran, carried in the canon of an ancient church -- and then were set aside. The Elder Witness takes up 1 Enoch, the Book of Giants, and Jubilees, and asks the question the centuries have left open: what if these books were not discarded because they were false, but misplaced because they were early?Walking through the manuscripts in the translation of R. H. Charles, with the scholarly record laid open -- from the Aramaic fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls to the critics the academy itself raised up -- this volume weighs the elder witness on its merits: its calendar of 364 days, its courses of the luminaries, its account of the Watchers, and its testimony to a reckoning of time older than the nations. The registers are printed whole; the sources are cited; the reader is left to judge with the evidence in hand.Volume IV of The Sacred Clock Collection -- the capstone of the witness. For the student, the pastor, and the watchman who would test all things: here is the testimony of the books that kept the count, misplaced in history, and recovered for the last days.