1 Enoch

183 Pages·2013·0.83 MB·English

by  George W. E. Nickelsburg

1 ENOCH
THE HERMENEIA TRANSLATION
GEORGE W. E. NICKELSBURG AND JAMES C.
VANDERKAM
Fortress Press
Minneapolis
1 ENOCH
The Hermeneia Translation
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Cover art: Photograph of 4QEnc i 6 (PAM 43. 199), a Qumran manuscript of the Aramaic of 1 Enoch 13–
14. See J. T. Milik, The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumrân Cave 4 (Oxford: Clarendon,
1976), plate XII. For Milik’s reconstruction of the text and its translation, see ibid., pp. 192–94. Photo
reproduced by permission of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Cover design: Ivy Palmer Skrade Interior design: The HK Scriptorium
Print ISBN: 978-0-8006-9910-9
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4514-2437-9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ethiopic book of Enoch. English.
1 Enoch : the Hermeneia translation / George W. E. Nickelsburg and James C.
VanderKam.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8006-3694-5 (alk. paper) I. Title: One Enoch. II. Title: First Enoch. III. Nickelsburg, George
W. E., 1934-IV. VanderKam, James C. V. Title.
BS1830.E6A3 2004b
229’ .913—dc22
2004015048
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Contents
Preface
Abbreviations and Sigla
Introduction
1. The Book of the Watchers
(Chapters 1–36)
2. The Book of Parables
(Chapters 37–71)
3. The Book of the Luminaries
(Chapters 72–82)
4. Enoch’s Dream Visions
(Chapters 83–90)
5. A Narrative Bridge
(Chapter 91:1-9, 18-19)