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1 Enoch 1: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 1–36; 81–108 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The first exhaustive commentary on this work since 1773! This volume represents the culmination of three decades’ work on the Book of 1 Enoch for author George W.E. Nickelsburg. He provides detailed commentary on each passage in chapters 1–36 and 81–108, and an introduction to the full work. The introduction includes sections on overviews of each of the smaller collections, texts and manuscripts,...

Introduction 0.0. Prolegomena The Jewish apocalyptic, or revelatory, traditions collected in 1 Enoch were composed between the fourth century B.C.E. and the turn of the Common Era in the name of the patriarch mentioned in Gen 5:21–24*. The language of their composition was Aramaic, but the collection as a whole has been preserved only in a fifth- to sixth-century C.E. Ethiopic (Geʿez) translation of an intermediate Greek translation (see §2). The place of their composition appears to have been
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