The Book of Enoch
TRANSLATIONS OF EARLY DOCUMENTS
SERIES I
PALESTINIAN JEWISH TEXTS
(PRE-RABBINIC)
(1 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
_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, i…