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• Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Patterns and Parallels in Scripture ScholarshipStories and PatternsMotifsBorrowed Traditions and Cultural InfluenceStudying Joseph Smith and Early Mormon ScriptureThe ­­Patternist-Historian ApproachChapter One. An American Farm BoyChapter Two. Who Is Enoch?Enoch in the Old TestamentEnoch in the New TestamentEnoch in the ApocryphaEnoch in the Book of JasherEnoch in the Book of JubileesEnoch in Mormon DoctrineChapter Three. The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)Chapter Four. Ground Rules for This Historical QuestionChapter Five. Joseph Smith’s Access to the Book of EnochChapter Six. Substantial (and Important) SimilaritiesJoseph’s First VisionsAnother Vision with Another Angel: The Angel MoroniChapter Seven. The Book of MosesMoses 1: The Prologue to Genesis1. Similar Openings and Settings2. Moses Atop a Mountain, Speaks with God and Sees His Glory3. Moses Is Shown All Things of the Past and Things Yet to Come4. Moses Is Commanded to Write5. Revelations for His FollowersSimilar Openings and SettingsTaken Atop a Mountain to Speak with God and Sees His GloryMoses and Enoch Are Shown All Things Past and Things Yet to ComeMoses and Enoch Are Both Commanded to Write BooksBoth Are to Write Books for Their Followers “Who Believe”6. Transfiguration to Speak with God Face to Face7. Falling to the Ground8. Satan Is Rebuked, He Fears and Departs9. Beholding the Numberless on the Earth, from the Beginning and Without End10. Moses and Enoch Both Ask What Is This World? And Why Creation?11. The Purpose: Eternal Life and Everlasting Glory of Mankind12. A Warning That the Children of Men Will Turn Against God’s BooksMoses 2–5 (Genesis 1–4)Secret Combinations and Death Penalty OathsChapter Eight. Joseph Smith’s EnochMahujah, Mahijah and MehujaelJoseph’s Enoch Found in TranslationJoseph’s Enoch as Another EliasEnoch’s Patriarchal LineageThe Wild Man Out of the WildernessLiterary Parallels Between Moses and EnochBowing or Falling to the EarthWaters in Their Course and Turning Their WaysA “Spirit Prison”God’s “Earth Is His Footstool”Men Are Carnal and DevilishA Scribe of RighteousnessJoseph and Sidney Rigdon’s Enoch EmergesAgain, Speaking with God and Seeing All Generations of the WorldAngels Declaring Wo! Wo! to the Inhabitants of the EarthHeavenly Weeping on Account of the EarthEnoch’s Son Methuselah Prophesies in Moses and the Book of EnochEnoch Foretells of Noah Building an Ark, and His Family Saved from the FloodCorruption of “Sons of Men,” “Giants” and Choosing Wives Among Daughters of MenEnoch Foresees the Coming of the Son of ManChapter Nine. Zion—A New JerusalemChapter Ten. The Mormon Temple EndowmentA ­Temple-Building People with a Promised EndowmentMormon Temple Allusions and Book of Enoch Parallels­Latter-day Saints, Given Secret Names, Clothed in Garments and Anointed as Kings, Queens, Priests and PriestessesKings, Princes and PriestsQueens and PriestessesClothed in GarmentsSecret Names­Latter-day SaintsThe Archangel Michael/Adam Creator DoctrineACT I: The Cosmos and CreationEarth: A Footstool of God, for the Dominion of the Sons of ManACT II: The GardenA “New World” and Renewed Awakening“The tree of knowledge also was there”Adam and Enoch Are Ashamed, Naked and Wear VeilsCasting Out and Condemning LuciferDefeated, Satan DepartsACT III: Knock and It Shall Be Opened Unto YouSeeking Light and Divine KnowledgeSecret Names and Swearing OathsThe Celestial Room; the Throne RoomChapter Eleven. Mormon Cosmology: The Book of Abraham delete deleteand 1 Enoch“An existence previous to the formation of the luminaries of heaven”The War in HeavenA Star Fell from HeavenOther Stars Also Cast Out from Heaven with the FirstHe Shall Dwell Among His ElectThe Judgment ThroneThe Judged Are Cast into a Lake of Fire and BrimstoneTens of Thousands of Angels Surrounding God’s ThroneA New Heaven and EarthThe First EstateThe Second EstateThe PreexistenceA Spirit PrisonMultiple Heavens and Celestial and Terrestrial KingdomsEchoes of Enoch in the Book of AbrahamKeeping Records for the Benefit of Future GenerationsA Vision of the Celestial Stars, and the Names of the Great deleteOnesObserving the Times and Seasons and Heavenly OperationsA Reckoning of a Day on Earth in the Lord’s Time A Book of the Revolutions of the Luminaries Inferior and Superior Luminaries of the Night and DayChapter Twelve. Gods of Our Own Worlds“The holy, holy, Lord of spirits fills the whole world of spirits”Counsels of Gods in the HeavensInfinite IntelligencesLight of the WorldChapter NotesBibliographyIndex