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The Book of Enoch or 1 Enoch: Notes is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

or 37–71, marriage could no longer be considered as a part of the Messianic blessedness. Again, whereas the Essenes objected to animal sacrifice, no such objection is taken either in 1 or 2 Enoch In the former in 8950 the temple sacrifices are referred to with complete approval in the words ‘and they offered a full table before Him.’ In 8973 the sacrifices are said to be ‘polluted’, but no condemnation of sacrifice in itself is here implied. The writer uses no stronger words than Mal. 1:7, ‘Ye
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