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59 to the biblical record, it was the seventh pre-Diluvial Patri- arch, whom the Bible calls Enoch, who was taken by God to the heavenly abode. While the biblical narrative lists for the pre-Diluvial Patri- archs who had preceded Enoch and for those who followed him their names, age when their firstborn son was begotten, and the age at which they died, it states in respect to Enoch, the seventh Patriarch, thus (we quote from the common En- glish translation): And Enoch lived sixty and Jive years and begot Methuselah. And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methuselah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty five years. for Enoch walked with God and was gone, a oe Se ne en ee Even this short biblical report has more to it than meets the eye in translation because in the original Hebrew it is stated that "Enoch walked with the Elohim," and was taken aloft "by Elohim." The Hebrew term, as we have shown, stood for DIN.GIR in the Sumerian sources of Genesis. Thus it was the Anunnaki with whom Enoch "walked" and by whom he was taken aloft. This gloss, as well as_ scientific data that could come only from the Sumerian sexagesimal system of mathematics and the Sumerian calendar that had originated in Nippur, are clues to the ancient sources of com- positions thanks to which we know much more about Enoch than the laconic biblical sentence. The first of these compositions is the Book of Jubilees that we have already mentioned. Filling in the details lacking in the biblical account of the ten pre-Diluvial Patriarchs, it as- serts that Enoch's "walking with the Elohim" was his "being with the angels of God six jubilees of years, and they showed him everything which is on Earth and in _ the heavens:" on The Three Who to Heaven Ascended for God had taken him.