1 Enoch 1

A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 1–36; 81–108

by George W. E. Nickelsburg

Edited by

Klaus Baltzer

Fortress

Press Minneapolis

1 Enoch

A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 1–36; 81–108

© 2001 Augsburg Fortress

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nickelsburg, George W. E., 1934–

1 Enoch : a commentary on the book of 1 Enoch / by George W. E. Nickelsburg.

    p. cm. — (Hermeneia)

Includes the text of the Ethiopic book of Enoch in English translation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: 1. Chapters 1–36, 81–108.

ISBN 0–8006-6074–9

1. Ethiopic book of Enoch—Commentaries. I. Title: First Enoch. II. Title: Vol. 1 has title: 1 Enoch 1. III. Ethiopic book of Enoch. English. IV. Title. V. Hermeneia—a critical and historical commentary on the Bible.

BS1830.E7 N53 2001

229’.913—dc21

2001041326

Hermeneia

—A Critical

and Historical

Commentary

on the Bible

Old Testament Editorial Board

Frank Moore Cross, Harvard University, chairman

Klaus Baltzer, University of Munich

Paul D. Hanson, Harvard University

S. Dean McBride Jr., Union Theological Seminary in Virginia

Peter Machinist, Harvard University

Susan Niditch, Amherst College

Christopher R. Seitz, St. Andrews University

Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., emeritus

New Testament Editorial Board

Helmut Koester, Harvard University, chairman

Harold W. Attridge, Yale University

Adela Yarbro Collins, University of Chicago

Eldon Jay Epp, Case Western Reserve University

James M. Robinson, Claremont Graduate School

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The Author

George W. E. Nickelsburg was born in 1934 and lives in Iowa City, Iowa. He received his education at Valparaiso University, Concordia Seminary, Washington University, and Harvard University, where he did his doctoral work with Krister Stendahl, Helmut Koester, Frank M. Cross, and John Strugnell. In 1963–64 he was Thayer Fellow at the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem and a field supervisor in archeological digs at Tell Ta’annek, the Wâdi-ed-Dâliyeh, and Tell el-Ful.

For three years he served as pastor of a Lutheran parish in Akron, Ohio. Then for more than three decades he taught on the faculty of The University of Iowa, where he ...