The book
About this edition
A complete 1 Enoch in one hardcover, set from the translation scholars have cited for a hundred years — built to be read, not archived.
What the book is
The Book of Enoch is quoted in the New Testament — Jude quotes it by name — and it echoes across the gospels, the letters of Paul and the Revelation. Yet within a few centuries of the canon being fixed, it was gone from Western Bibles. It survived in full only in the Ethiopian Orthodox canon, in Ge'ez manuscripts, until fragments of an older Aramaic version turned up among the Dead Sea Scrolls and confirmed its antiquity.
This edition puts the complete text back in the hands of an ordinary reader: all five books of 1 Enoch, all 108 chapters, in one volume.
The five books of 1 Enoch
| Book | Chapters | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| The Book of the Watchers | 1–36 | The fall of the Watchers, the promise of judgement, Enoch's journey through the heavens. |
| The Parables of Enoch | 37–71 | The Son of Man, the Chosen One, the judgement of kings and mighty ones. |
| The Astronomical Book | 72–82 | The courses of the sun and moon, the stars, the calendar of heaven. |
| The Dream Visions | 83–90 | Enoch's two visions: the flood, and the long history of Israel as sheep among wolves. |
| The Epistle of Enoch | 91–108 | Wisdom, woes, the hemlock of the world to come and the birth of the righteous ones. |
The traditional division of the text.
The translation
This edition uses the R. H. Charles translation of 1917 — still the version scholars read and cite — lightly modernised for a reader in 2026, with chapter and verse numbering kept throughout so you can check any passage against any other edition.
Physical details
- 6×9 inch hardcover, casebound, with a printed dust jacket.
- 189 pages on 60# cream, warm-white paper.
- Typeset in a classic serif, sized for extended reading.
- Printed on demand in the US and shipped with tracking, postage included.