Book of Enoch, to a believer, survives as arguably the oldest scripture existing today. It is recorded (Jasher) that Enoch living in the Sumerian Copper-Stone Age around 3000 BC was first to learn how to write testimonial prose at a time when cuneiform was limited to lists and numbers. Archaeologists date the start of the Fara Period when writing prose books started to around the 25th century BC. Enoch, the first to write like this, using a form of writing that could record speech and thought, said to his son (Biblical Methuselah) that he started writing before his marriage. This would be around the 30th century BC. Sumerian history records that he ascended with angels to where the throne of God is. The Bible says this was in his 365th year which would put it in the 28th century BC. The majority of the Book of Enoch consists of writings which report to be from this time. Clearly he had been writing before then (as recorded in the account of his first prophetic dream). It appears Adam was created in the 38th century BC and the Bible says Enoch was born over 600 years later in the 32nd or 31st century BC. So writing characteristic of the Fara Period may have existed as early as the 31st century BC and some of the Book of Enoch texts existed in the 28th century BC.
