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   ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ (kingofwhiteamerica@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 05:25:36 JST ☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️

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   @BudSpencer @Svantovit Enoch is getting a lot of mention - for good reason. While only the Ethiopian Tewahedo elevate it to Holy Scripture, the Ancient World nigh unanimously regarded it as a sincere and earnest attempt at describing the pre-Diluvian world, and the conditions that brought it about - even if not so authoritative as Biblical texts.

   On par with Enoch, I’d recommend The Wisdom of Solomon. It’s got probably the best single Messianic Prophecy (Wis. 2:12-20). It was sufficiently obvious, it directly led me to reconsider my thitherto Protestant Biblical position.

   Those are the two big ones. But I also recommend The Psalter According to the Seventy as translated by Holy Transfiguration Monastery. While not at all Apocryphal, it matches Gospel references to Psalms better than Masoretic-sourced material.

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     @BudSpencer @Svantovit Oh and the Maccabees are really good if you’re a history buff. In fact, the entire OT Deuterocanon is good if you’re a historian, because they’re very significant historically, spanning the “400 Silent Years” (LOL!)

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     BudSpencer (budspencer@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 05:25:37 JST BudSpencer

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     @Svantovit If you are looking for Jesus doing magic tricks the childhood Gospel by Thomas is kinda interesting. If you are looking for angels that could be aliens, maybe the book of enoch. If you wanna get into gnostic theory the judas gospel offers another perspective on jesus.
     
     Maybe @KingOfWhiteAmerica as an Orthobro can give you a more educated anwer from and Orthodox perspective.
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     BudSpencer (budspencer@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 05:25:38 JST BudSpencer

     • Svantovit :bucees: :confederateflag:
     @Svantovit Maybe you should clarify what you are looking for, because there are a lot.