The Book of Enoch or 1 Enoch: Translation

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 translation of the text.

Contents

Top Highlights

“XX. 1. And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. 2. Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus. 3. Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men. 4. Raguel, one of the holy angels who †takes vengeance on† the world of the luminaries. 5. Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of mankind ╓and╖ over chaos. 6. Saraqâêl, one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit. 7. Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim. 8. Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set over those who rise.” (Pages 43–44)

“Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, and said to him: 2. ‘‹Go to Noah and› tell him in my name ‘Hide thyself!’, and reveal to him the end that is approaching: that the whole earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come upon the whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it. 3. And now instruct him that he may escape and his seed may be preserved for all the generations of the world.’” (Page 22)

“And again the Lord said to Raphael: ‘Bind Azâzêl hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening in the desert, which is in Dûdâêl, and cast him therein. 5. And place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide there for ever, and cover his face that he may not see light. 6. And on the day of the great judgement he shall be cast into the fire. 7. And heal the earth which the angels have corrupted, and proclaim the healing of the earth, that they may heal the plague, and that all the children of men may not perish through all the secret things that the Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons. 8. And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azâzêl: to him ascribe all sin.’” (Pages 22–23)

Product Details

• Title: The Book of Enoch or 1 Enoch: Translation
• 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; Apocryphal books (O.T.); Book of Enoch (Ethiopian) › Commentaries
• Resource ID: LLS:BKENOCHTRANS
• Resource Type: text.monograph.ancient-manuscript.translation
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-13T22:14:23Z

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.