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Angelic instruction of Seth (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Adapa (ascent to heaven) 04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry 04.01 Myths 04.01.01 Adapa (ascent to heaven) Seven sages 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.02 Human history 01.02.03 Antediluvian age 01.02.03.03 Seven sages	Keywords flood prophecies Seth
Period 9th century CE Byzantine Empire	Channel Byzantine philosophers and scholars

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Synkellos, Cronographia 10:
In the 270th year of Adam, Seth was taken up by angels and given instructions as to what would happen concerning the transgressions of the Watchers, and the affairs concerning the coming flood of water, and about the coming of the Saviour; and after his disappearance for forty days he returned and related in full to the protoplasts what he had been taught by the angels.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Synkellos, Cronographia 10

Bibliography

Adler and Tuffin 2002, 13

Adler, W. and P. Tuffin. The Chronography of George Synkellos. A Byzantine Chronicle of Universal History from the Creation translated with introduction and notes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Amar Annus

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