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“I Kneeled Down Before My Maker”: Allusions to Esau in the Book of Enos - Matthew L. Bowen

September 22, 2017

The Book of Enos constitutes a brief literary masterpiece. A close reading of Enos’s autobiography reveals textual dependency not only on 1 Nephi 1:1-2 and Genesis 32–33, but also on earlier parts of the Jacob‑Esau cycle in Genesis 25, 27.