The Book of Enoch TRANSLATIONS OF EARLY DOCUMENTS SERIES I PALESTINIAN JEWISH TEXTS (PRE-RABBINIC) THE BOOK OF ENOCH (1 ENOCH) THE BOOK OF ENOCH BY R. H. CHARLES, D.LITT., D.D. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE REV. W. O. E. OESTERLEY, D.D. LONDON S · P · C · K 1962 _First published in 1917_ _Tenth impression, 1962_ _S.P.C.K._ Holy Trinity Church Marylebone Road London N.W.1 _Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay and Company Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk_ We desire to express our hearty thanks to Canon Charles and the Delegates of the Oxford University Press for their permission to reprint here the translation given in their second edition of _The Book of Enoch_ (1912). W. O. E. Oesterley. G. H. Box. EDITORS’ PREFACE The object of this series of translations is primarily to furnish students with short, cheap, and handy text-books, which, it is hoped, will facilitate the study of the particular texts in class under competent teachers. But it is also hoped that the volumes will be acceptable to the general reader who may be interested in the subjects with which they deal. It has been thought advisable, as a general rule, to restrict the notes and comments to a small compass; more especially as, in most cases, excellent works of a more elaborate character are available. Indeed, it is much to be desired that these translations may have the effect of inducing readers to study the larger works. Our principal aim, in a word, is to make some difficult texts, important for the study of Christian origins, more generally accessible in faithful and scholarly translations. In most cases these texts are not available in a cheap and handy form. In one or two cases texts have been included of books which are available in the official Apocrypha; but in every such case reasons exist for putting forth these texts in a new translation, with an Introduction, in this series. W. O. E. Oesterley. G. H. Box. INTRODUCTION The Apocalyptic Literature