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The Sleeping Almanac
Book of Enoch · The Books the Bible Left Out
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The Book of Enoch was left out of most Bibles, and for a long time people have said it was lost, or hidden, or banned. Most of that is not true, and the true story is stranger and quieter. Tonight, a three hour sleep story about the books that did not make the list: the man in Genesis who did not die, the two hundred watchmen who came down a mountain, the house whose floor and ceiling are both fire, the giants who dreamed, the angel who read to Moses from a tablet, a gospel that is only sayings, and the one church, high in the mountains of Ethiopia, that never once called any of them lost.
Read slowly, in a low voice, beside a lamp in a round highland church in the rain, by a copyist who has never heard that the book on his knees was missing. Told from the texts themselves, with every claim checked against the scholarship, and nothing invented.
This is a seed for our next season, The Lost Books, and Part 2 is on Tuesday: how they came back, from a jar in a cliff above the Dead Sea and a jar in the Egyptian sand.
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Chapters
- 0:00Welcome
- 7:49The Scriptorium in the Highlands
- 14:01The Man Who Did Not Die
- 20:25Two Hundred on the Mountain
- 28:25The House of Fire and Ice
- 36:47The Book That Argued With the Sky
- 43:20The Giants Tell It Themselves
- 49:57The Angel With the Tablet
- 56:37A Page With No Story On It
- 1:02:29The Serpent Who Told the Truth
- 1:07:53The Quote Inside the Bible
- 1:16:37The Church That Never Filed It Under Lost
- 1:23:36Goodnight. And the Lamp in the Highlands
- 1:28:18Calm music to drift off
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