A Temple in Nod

Book 1 in the
My Brother Methuselah Series

This book is the first account of Jared of El, a roguish long-lived adventurer who wanders through the Old, New and Lost Testaments. The story source is Genesis 2-7, six chapters which describe First Earth, First Men and the Fall of First Men. The timeline spans 01 A.E. to 1656 A.E., the years After Eden to the Flood. During this time parts of First Earth become civilized. There is conflict between the Sethite Land of El and the Cainite Land of Nod.

    Jared, born in 987 A.E., is the youngest brother of Methuselah, the seventh and last king of El and the longest-lived of the named antediluvian patriarchs (969 years).   Their father was Enoch, the Holy Man, who did not die "because God took him away" (Genesis 5:24).   Jared says Watchers (righteous angels) escorted Enoch to Eden where he walks with The Angel of the Lord. Jared, whose mother, a daughter of Eve, died having him and who was raised by his brother, thinks God can be harsh sometimes.

    Enoch was also a prophet and burdened his sons with prophetic names. Jared means "Preserver of the Ages." Methuselah means "When he dies, It will come." Methuselah died the year of the Flood. These elements of the story are not made up.

    First earth is a paradox - a wild, wonderful, advanced, primitive, depraved and violent place. Jared loves it, God does not. Jared and his gifted Sethite brethren build farms and cities and ships and pyramids, battle Cainites and giants and goatlegs and Nephilim.

    Myth springs from some ancient truth, the most ancient being the lost world recorded in Genesis 6 where the "Sons of God (fallen angels) went to the daughters of men and had children by them," where there were "Heroes of Old, men of renown." To my knowledge no modern writer has ever written of the antediluvian heroes and the mysterious race called the Nephilim. Could their exploits be detailed in The Wars of the Lord and The Book of Jasher? These books, long lost, are mentioned in Numbers, Joshua, and II Samuel. Could Jared have written or helped write them? Could they be discovered along with their long-lived author?

    My objective as Jared's "compiler" is to attract readers to their Bibles, for them discover a wild world that truly did happen. I pray their interest is piqued and they keep on reading...my books and their Bibles.

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