Winners of the Blog Hop

The winners of the Blog Hop are:
Paperback: Filia
Kindle: Alias Girl
Freda
Debbie
Rachel
The winners have been emailed.
Thank you so much to all who entered!

Splash Into Summer Blog Hop!

PRIZES: 1 major prize of paperback book of The Complete Books of Enoch shipped anywhere in the word AND several Kindle ebook consolation prizes.
To enter, just follow this blog (you MUST follow this blog to enter) and leave a comment with
1) your email address at the end of this post.
(If you already followed this blog previously, just leave a comment saying this and you will go in the draw.)
2) Your comment should also mention if you have a Kindle!
Several people have reported a glitch on Internet Explorer and are unable to leave a comment. If you can't leave a comment, then please email me at horsecare (at) y7mail (dot) com with your email address, and let me know if you have a Kindle / Kindle for PC/Kindle Cloud

Are you looking for a translation of ALL THREE books of Enoch?
Now is a good time, as Amazon has just slashed (for a SHORT time) the price on the paperback Complete Books of Enoch to $14.93 (was $21.95) - get the Kindle book HERE and the Paperback book HERE.
This is NOT A PUBLIC DOMAIN VERSION. This is a NEW (2010) easy-to-read translation by ancient languages scholar Dr. A. Nyland and is NOT one of the many century-old public domain translations of Enoch NOR IS IT A REWORDED PUBLIC DOMAIN VERSION of Enoch. Great advances which have been made in ancient word meaning in the last twenty years were unknown to the translators of the public domains of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite the current trend for non-translators to reproduce public domain versions, both as is and slightly reworded, as a commercial venture, be aware that such public domain versions do not take advantage of recent scholarship in word meaning or any corrections in translation.
This new translation by Dr. A. Nyland contains all three Enochian books: 1 Enoch (The Ethiopic Book of Enoch) 2 Enoch (The Slavonic Book of Enoch, The Secrets of Enoch). This volume contains the extended version of 2 Enoch, The Exaltation of Melchizedek. 3 Enoch (The Hebrew Book of Enoch)
Note that this is Dr. Nyland's translation and NOT a public domain work.
1 Enoch tells of the Watchers, a class of angel, who taught humans weapons, spell potions, root cuttings, astrology, astronomy, and alchemies. The Watchers also slept with human women and produced the Nephilim. For this, they were imprisoned and cast into Tartarus. This is also mentioned in the New Testament.
In 2 Enoch, two angels take Enoch through the 7 heavens. This volume contains the extended version of 2 Enoch, The Exaltation of Melchizedek.
In 3 Enoch, Enoch ascends to heaven and is transformed into the angel Metatron. This is about the Merkabah and is of interest to Kabbalists. People interested in Theosophy and Rosicrucianism will find this book invaluable. There are copious background notes and cross references to Bible verses. This book is an easy to read translation with cross references and notes.
Here is part of a 5 star review by Amazon Top 1,000 Reviewer Relytia:
"The book is very unbiased and objective, even in the additional "commentary" parts that are scattered numerously throughout the book. Thankfully, Dr. Nyland does not fall trap to the grating, presumptuous mistake that most religiously oriented supplementary book authors do; that mistake being injecting his/her own ideas into the work and treating that as if their own conjecture and speculation is God's inspired word as well (a very arrogant, annoying practice, if you ask me). Rather, the author takes a very scholarly approach by merely presenting the material untouched, and then by giving context to certain terms that appear in the writings themselves. Certain names and terms may be unfamiliar to most (there were many terms I really had no idea about), so there will be a box that informatively tells you what that term meant to people of the time it was written, and may even show you some scriptures that specifically refer to that very same subject.

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THE COMPLETE BOOKS OF ENOCH price slashed!

Are you looking for a translation of ALL THREE books of Enoch?
Now is a good time, as Amazon has just slashed the price on the paperback Complete Books of Enoch to $14.93 (was $21.95!!)
GET IT HERE!

 

This is NOT A PUBLIC DOMAIN VERSION. This is a NEW (2010) easy-to-read translation by ancient languages scholar Dr. A. Nyland and is NOT one of the many century-old public domain translations of Enoch NOR IS IT A REWORDED PUBLIC DOMAIN VERSION of Enoch. Great advances which have been made in ancient word meaning in the last twenty years were unknown to the translators of the public domains of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite the current trend for non-translators to reproduce public domain versions, both as is and slightly reworded, as a commercial venture, be aware that such public domain versions do not take advantage of recent scholarship in word meaning or any corrections in translation.

This new translation by Dr. A. Nyland contains all three Enochian books: 1 Enoch (The Ethiopic Book of Enoch) 2 Enoch (The Slavonic Book of Enoch, The Secrets of Enoch). This volume contains the extended version of 2 Enoch, The Exaltation of Melchizedek. 3 Enoch (The Hebrew Book of Enoch)

Note that this is Dr. Nyland's translation and NOT a public domain work.

1 Enoch tells of the Watchers, a class of angel, who taught humans weapons, spell potions, root cuttings, astrology, astronomy, and alchemies. The Watchers also slept with human women and produced the Nephilim. For this, they were imprisoned and cast into Tartarus. This is also mentioned in the New Testament.

In 2 Enoch, two angels take Enoch through the 7 heavens. This volume contains the extended version of 2 Enoch, The Exaltation of Melchizedek.

In 3 Enoch, Enoch ascends to heaven and is transformed into the angel Metatron. This is about the Merkabah and is of interest to Kabbalists. People interested in Theosophy and Rosicrucianism will find this book invaluable. There are copious background notes and cross references to Bible verses. This book is an easy to read translation with cross references and notes. 

Here is part of a 5 star review by Amazon Top 1,000 Reviewer Relytia:

 "The book is very unbiased and objective, even in the additional "commentary" parts that are scattered numerously throughout the book. Thankfully, Dr. Nyland does not fall trap to the grating, presumptuous mistake that most religiously oriented supplementary book authors do; that mistake being injecting his/her own ideas into the work and treating that as if their own conjecture and speculation is God's inspired word as well (a very arrogant, annoying practice, if you ask me). Rather, the author takes a very scholarly approach by merely presenting the material untouched, and then by giving context to certain terms that appear in the writings themselves. Certain names and terms may be unfamiliar to most (there were many terms I really had no idea about), so there will be a box that informatively tells you what that term meant to people of the time it was written, and may even show you some scriptures that specifically refer to that very same subject."

 

Why can't I be a vegan?

You know, it gets pretty tiring when I constantly, incessantly, have to explain to people over and over and over again why I'm a vegan. 

I don't ask people why they are carnivores. I don't give lectures on health or lectures on eating animals who have been horribly murdered in terror at slaughter houses, or lectures on eating eggs from battery hens. I mind my own business, so people, next time you encounter a vegetarian or vegan, please resist the urge to comment on their eating choices.

People pushing pies and cream cakes in their mouths express fears for my health, worrying that I'm eating "that sort of food."

People with nutritionally-based health problems say to me, "That food can't be good for you!"

Then there are the people who ask, "What about protein?" Ok, we all know that plants don't have protein, right? Wrong!

It's all oh-so-tiring.

I don't comment on the eating habits of other people, so why do they feel free to comment on mine?

Also restaurants think they are so good for having one vegetarian option on the menu. That means that vegetarians are forced to eat that; there is no choice. How would all you non-vegetarians like it if you went to a restaurant and there was no option but one?

I don't try to convert non-vegans, so please don't try to convert me, and please resist the urge to comment on my eating habits. How would you like it if people questioned you every time you tried to eat or make comments about it? I just want to eat in peace.

Ok, now here is my recipe for vegan fake chocolate mousse.

Vegan Non-Soy Chocolate Mousse.

Assemble: organic raw cacao powder - 1 heaped dessertspoon, plus some oat milk, and a lot of baby spinach, and some pea based isolate protein powder.

How much I hear you ask? I am a bad cook, so I have no idea. I just stick them all in. You can use a LOT of baby spinach - you will not be able to taste it, and that makes it thick.

Blend. Don't put too much oat milk in at first or it will be too thin, and you can use a LOT more baby spinach than you will think.

This makes a delicious chocolate mousse.

Here is vegan non-soy fake ice cream. (I am soy intolerant.)

Vegan Non-Soy Ice Cream.

1 can of lite coconut cream (make sure it's the coconut cream, not the coconut milk.)

Put it in a blender with 1 dessertspoon organic raw cacao powder - you can add a dessertspoon of sugar if you like.

Blend it. Freeze it.

Eat it before it's frozen too solid, or you will have to thaw it a little to eat it. It is DELICIOUS!!!

The coconut taste is not obvious in the lite coconut cream but is obvious in the coconut cream. If you use coconut milk, it will be icy, not like ice cream.

Science Fiction HEDGELAND is now FREE on Kindle!!

My Science Fiction / Time Travel book Hedgeland is now FREE on Kindle - click HERE to get it. (It's also free on iTunes, Nook, Kobo, eBookstore.)

Hedgeland, a dark fantasy /science fiction of time travel. Dr April Neuland, a Professor of Ancient Languages turned non-fiction writer, has been plagued by dreams all her life, dreams of her past life in the Otherworld as one of what people came to call "Fae." Meanwhile, in a parallel dimension of April's past and Caridwen's future, Worthing, a Future History Professor, has allied with the Military to access Future Internet communications and use new technology to influence April to write an ebook novel revealing where she, in her past life as Caridwen, hid the Kiste, a device to travel through time and space. Hedgeland weaves all three time/space frames: Caridwen, Worthing, and April. Hedgeland is the first in the Hedgecraft Series, but is a fully self contained novel with no cliff hangers.
Author Dr Ann Nyland was on Faculty at the University of New England, Australia. She is a grammar pedant, ancient languages translator, and best selling non-fiction author of such books as The Complete Books of Enoch; Angels, Archangels and Angel Categories: What the Ancients Said; The Book of Jubilees; A Devil of a Job to Find Satan in the Bible, among others.

Winners Random Acts Blog Hop

The Random Acts of Kindness Blog Hop has now closed and Winners are:
Karen D won the paperback, Angels, Archangels and Angel Categories
Sharon S won the Kindle Book 2
Ellen H won the Kindle Book 2
John D won the Kindle Book 5.
Thank you to all who entered!

Random Acts of Kindness Giveaway

Giveaway: Feb 17 - Feb 22.

1 major prize of paperback book shipped anywhere in the word AND several Kindle ebook consolation prizes.

To enter, just follow this blog (you MUST follow this blog to enter) and leave a comment with 1) your email address at the end of this post.
(If you already followed this blog previously, just leave a comment saying this and you will go in the draw.)
Your comment should also say 2) which book you would like to win (name of book or just the number)
AND there will be Kindle book consolation prizes, so 3) mention if you have a Kindle!

Several people have reported a glitch on Internet Explorer and are unable to leave a comment. If you can't leave a comment, then please email me at horsecare (at) y7mail (dot) com with the book you would like to win, and let me know if you have a Kindle / Kindle for PC/Kindle Cloud.

Here are the books to choose from. (They are all my own translations so NONE are public domain!!!)
Book 1.

Third Book of Enoch (3 Enoch, Merkabah Hebrew Book of Enoch)
3 Enoch is also known as The Hebrew Book of Enoch, as the evidence suggests it was originally written in Hebrew. 3 Enoch is also known as Sefer Hekhalot, meaning Book of Palaces. In 3 Enoch, Enoch ascends to heaven and is transformed into the angel Metatron. The Talmud does not state this, but the tradition is found in the earliest Kabbalists. Jewish mysticism traces to the Merkabah practices of the 1st c. CE. The goal of Merkabah Mysticism was to enter a trance-like state by means of fasting, meditation, prayer and incantation, and thus ascend to God's heavenly throne room and experience God's Throne-Chariot (Hebrew: "Merkabah"). This is a NEW translation by ancient languages scholar Dr A. Nyland.

Book 2.

Fallen Angels, Watchers, Giants, Nephilim and Evil
This is an easy-to-read book suited to anyone with an interest in the subject, but has full scholarly notes to primary sources. Watchers were a class of angel who came to earth and taught weapons, spell potions, root cuttings, astrology, astronomy and alchemies to the humans living on earth. Some of the Watchers slept with human women. For this they were thrown into Tartarus. Nephilim were the progeny of the Watchers and the human women. Greek mythology speaks of gigantes being thrown into Tartarus. Gigantes is the word which the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible dated to the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE) uses to translate the Hebrew word "Nephilim," and is translated into English as "Giants."
Idioms such as the mistranslation "sons of God," which have rightly confused those who have no knowledge of ancient languages, are explained fully. The book avoids theological pontification and ramblings, and adheres instead to actual evidence.

Book 3.

Second Book of Enoch (2 Enoch, Secrets of Enoch, Slavonic Enoch)
The Second Book of Enoch was originally written in Greek at Alexandria although some parts of the text were written in Hebrew in Palestine. It is dated to the 1st century prior to the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE. Two angels take Enoch into six heavens. Enoch is then taken by Gabriel into the seventh heaven and then by Michael into the Lord's presence. This book
contains the extended version of 2 Enoch, The Exaltation of Melchizedek, and is an easy to read translation, with notes and cross references to both scripture and contemporary writings.

Book 4.

First Book of Enoch, Angels, Watchers, Nephilim (1 Enoch / The First Book of Enoch)
The First Book of Enoch contains accounts of the Watchers, a class of angel, who came to earth, taught humans weapons, alchemy, spell potions, sorcery, astrology, and astronomy. The Watchers also married human women and produced the Nephilim. For this, they were punished and cast into Tartarus. This is also mentioned in the New Testament. This is an easy to read translation of The Book of Enoch with additional information on angels, Watchers, and Nephilim.


Book 5.

Prayer Mystery Revealed: What The Greek Of The New Testament Really Says About Prayer
From the translator of the best selling The Source New Testament comes Prayer Mystery Revealed: What the Greek of the New Testament Really Says about Prayer!
We depend on the Word of God, but it's no secret that most of the major Bible translations we have today have inaccuracies to a large degree.
Since we reply on God's Word, we need to know what God's Word actually says!
Prayer Mystery Revealed: What the Greek of the New Testament Really says about Prayer, by Classical Greek scholar Dr A. Nyland takes a close look at the information in the New Testament about prayer. You can't afford to be without it!

Book 6.

The Book of Jubilees (The Little Genesis, The Apocalypse of Moses) 
This is a new (2011) easy-to-read translation by ancient languages scholar Dr. A. Nyland and is NOT one of the many century-old public domain translations NOR is it a reworded public domain version.
The Book of Jubilees contains information additional to Genesis and early Exodus, and is the account from creation to the early times of Moses. The Book of Jubilees claims to be told to Moses by angels when he was on Mount Sinai. One of the Dead Sea Scrolls, The Damascus Document, states that the Book of Jubilees reveals divine secrets "to which Israel has turned a blind eye." The Essenes, a Jewish sect who lived from the 2nd c. BCE to the 1st c. ACE, coveted the Book of Jubilees and kept it in their library. Jubilees are seven "year-weeks," a year-week being a period of seven years, so a jubilee is 49 years.
The Book of Jubilees is also known as The Little Genesis or The Apocalypse of Moses.
This is an easy-to-read translation of The Book of Jubilees translated into contemporary English yet at the same time has full scholarly references.


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