The edition
Which Book of Enoch translation should you read?
The version you choose decides what you actually read. The short answer: start with the one everyone quotes — R. H. Charles’s 1917 classic, the translation our hardcover is set from.
The short answer
Every English Enoch traces back through the same Ge'ez manuscript tradition — and Charles 1917 is the translation behind almost everything you’ve ever heard quoted. Documentaries, lectures, books, podcasts: when someone cites Enoch by chapter and verse, they’re citing Charles.
That’s why we set our edition from it. You get the text people actually mean when they say “The Book of Enoch” — complete, and in one volume.
What makes our edition the one to buy
- The complete text — all 108 chapters, unabridged, in a single hardcover. Nothing pulled, nothing “selected”.
- R. H. Charles 1917, lightly modernised so it reads forward, not sideways — faithful, but clear.
- Public domain — no permissions, no licences, no cost baked into the price for someone else’s “new” version.
- A book built to be kept — 6x9 casebound hardcover, gold-foil wrap, archival cream paper, 189 typeset pages.
- Every hardcover includes a free ebook — read tonight, then keep the cloth copy on your shelf.
The honest word on ‘new’ translations
Plenty of editions are advertised as freshly translated. Many are public-domain Charles with a few words changed and a new cover. If a “new” translation has no verse numbers and no named translator with a track record, be suspicious.
Ours is the opposite: we tell you exactly what it is — Charles 1917, lightly modernised — and we keep every verse number, so you can check any passage against any other edition. What you see is exactly what you get.
Ready to read it?
Buy the hardcover and the ebook is included free. Ebook-only is still $14.99 if you do not want the printed book.