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The Book of Enoch · 26 of 109
Chapter XXVI. Jerusalem and the Mountains
1.And I went from thence to the middle of the earth, and I saw a blessed place [in which there were trees] with branches abiding and blooming of a dismembered tree.
2.And there I saw a holy mountain, [and] underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream and it flowed towards the south.
3.And I saw towards the east another mountain higher than this, and between them a deep and narrow ravine: in it also ran a stream [underneath] the mountain.
4.And to the west thereof there was another mountain, lower than the former and of small elevation, and a ravine [deep and dry]
between them: and another deep and dry ravine was at the extremities of the three [mountains].
5.And all the ravines were deep [and narrow], (being formed) of hard rock, and trees were not planted upon them.
6.And I marveled [at the rocks, and I marveled] at the ravine, yea, I marveled very much.
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Why does Enoch emphasize ravines, mountains, and a blessed tree in this vision?
Enoch records landscape details—the blessed place, a dismembered tree “with branches abiding and blooming,” and several mountains with deep, narrow ravines—to signal a cosmos that is both ordered and strange. The repeated mention of streams, elevations, and rock emphasizes boundaries and channels: life (the blooming tree and flowing water) exists amid harsh separations (the deep ravines).
This chapter treats geography as moral and theological geography: holiness appears in a specific site, a holy mountain with streams, while the ravines mark disruption and astonishment. That technique resembles the way Psalm 104 locates divine presence in created features and Revelation locates visions in symbolic landscapes.
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