num_pages: 184
description: Often described as the lost book of the Bible The Book of Enoch seems to have been written in Palestine by several different authors in the first and second centuries B.C. For hundreds of years it was accepted by the early church fathers but it was rejected by the council of Laodicea in A.D. 364. Today it remains a written remnant of the Apocalypse  an ardent testament to hope and the triumph of good over evil in the dawning of a world to come. Rife with concepts of original sin fallen angels demonology resurrection and the last judgment it is a vital document to the origins of Christianity.The Book of Enoch is comprised of various monumental works: The Book of Enoch The Parables The Book of the Courses of the Heavenly Luminaries The Dream Visions The Concluding Section and The Noah Fragments. Created in conjunction with an exhaustive critical commentary this is an English translation of '1 Enoch' taking into consideration all of the textual data now available the Ethiopic version the Greek texts and the Dead Sea Aramaic fragments.
language: English
title: 1 Enoch: The Hermeneia Translation
publisher: Fortress Press