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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,...

landmarks of Enoch’s journey are not a series of heavens, but the walls and buildings in the heavenly temple complex. ■ 5 In biblical accounts of theophanies, the theophany itself is followed by cosmic upheaval.19 Here that aspect of the reaction to God’s appearance is mainly deferred to vv 6–7. But the triple reference to “(all) the ends of the earth” quickly places the divine descent in its earthly context, and v 5c seems to state that the earth quakes from one end to the other. For this motif
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