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1 Enoch 2: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 37–82 is unavailable, but you can change that!

1 Enoch presents interpreters with a complex knot of interrelated puzzles concerning the history of early Judaism, the trajectories of wisdom and apocalyptic traditions, and the role of astronomical observation in cosmological speculation—all tied up with the bewildering history of the book’s composition and transmission, in different languages and manuscript traditions, over centuries. Two of...

certainty.14 Perhaps we can go a little further. Parallels between this chapter and chap. 38 lead us to 38:2de.15 Where (will be) the dwelling places (maḫāder) of the sinners, and where (will be) the resting place (meʿerāf) of those who have denied the Lord of Spirits? The answer to these rhetorical questions is: “it does not exist; they will find no rest” (see comm. on 38:1–2 above, pp. 96–97). This suggests a similar idea here, lost in a textual corruption but reflected in the negative formulation
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