The Book of Enoch or 1 Enoch: Notes

by Robert Henry Charles

Publisher:

Clarendon Press

, 1912

Overview

The book of Enoch, like the book of Daniel, was written partly in Aramaic and partly in Hebrew. Serious scholarship places this important pseudepigraph within the first two centuries before Christ. The translation is from Dillmann’s edition of the Ethiopic text, which was based on five manuscripts, nine uncollated Ethiopic manuscripts, and Greek and Latin fragments. This volume explains how evil came to the world with the arrival of the “fallen angels.” This resource contains the notes on the text.

Contents

Top Highlights

“After the third century the Book of Enoch fell into discredit and gradually passed out of circulation” (Page xiv)

“moral evil is traced to the lust of the Watchers 6–7, 15, and the revelations of Azazel” (Page civ)

“the disembodied spirits of their children became demons” (Page civ)

Product Details

• Title: The Book of Enoch or 1 Enoch: Notes
• Author: Robert Henry Charles
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Print Publication Date: 1912
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Ethiopic book of Enoch › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Book of Enoch (Ethiopian) › Commentaries
• Resource ID: LLS:BKENOCHNOTES
• Resource Type: Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-13T22:14:22Z

About Robert Henry Charles

R. H. Charles (1865–1943) is recognized as one of the leading figures in Enoch scholarship, and his masterly translation remains the standard edition of the text in English. An authority on apocalyptic literature, he became canon at Westminster Abbey in 1913 and an archdeacon in 1919. Charles is also the author of A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, vols. 1 and 2, and The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament.