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commerce with the daughters of men, giving birth to a243race of giants who invent all sorts of artifices and noxious knowledge. Then vice and evil increase to such a pitch that the Almighty punishes them all with the Deluge.He also relates his two journeys to the heavens and across the earth, being guided by good angels, and the mysteries and wonders he saw therein. In the second part, which is a description of the Kingdom of Peace, “the Son of Man” catches the kings in the midst of their voluptuous life and precipitates them into hell [1].However, this second book does not belong to one author, and assuredly, it is much corrupted by Christian hands. The third book (or part) contains some curious and developed astronomical and physical notions. The fourth part presents an apocalyptical view of the human race from the beginning to the Islamic days, which the author styles the “Messianic” times, in two symbolical parables or rather allegories. A white bull comes out of the earth; then a white heifer joins him they give birth to two calves: one black, the other red; the black bull beats and chases away the red one; then he meets a heifer and they give birth to several calves of black colour, until the mother cow leaves the black bull in the search the red one; and , as she does not find him, bawls andshrieks aloud, when a red bull appears, and they begin to propagate their species. Of course, this transparent parable symbolizes Adam Eve, Cain, Abel, Sheth, etc., down to Jacob (pbuh) whose offspring is represented by a “flock of sheep” -as the Chosen People of Israel; but the offspring of his brother Esau, i.e. the Edomites, is described as a swarm of boars. In this second parable the flock of sheep is frequently harassed, attacked, dispersed, and butchered by the beasts and birds of prey until we come to the so-called Messianic times, when the flock of sheep is again attacked fiercely by ravens[1] Enock Ivi. 4-8.