Book of Enoch: Together with a Reprint of the Greek Fragments

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Summary: Ghastly...
Review: First and foremost, the text looks like a fourth or fifth generation photocopy that is completly illegible in some parts and would cause eye strain in others.

Second, the price is ridiculous for a paperback book.

Third, as icing on the cake, a cover with an arrow through a flaming heart (meant to give expression to the amorous despair of the "sons of God" for the "daughters of men," I assume?) that could not be any more tasteless.

Shame on Kessinger Publishing. I am going to return this and try Charlesworth's "The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha."

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Summary: The book of Enoch with a reprint of the Greek fragments
Review: The book of Enoch is one book that scares many people.It throws lots of Dogma to the curb.It shows that Angels have their own hell to deal with, it tells of Angels sexual lust for Humans. God isn't refered to as Lord, or Father but as The Great One. One reviewer said in simple terms that because it wasn't in the Canon it's fake! There is evidence that most of the biblical scholars used this book as a study guide. The 100 AD given is a falsehood when stated like that, you would rewrite somthing too if you and two other people were the only ones who could read the book!Space travel is also mentioned when Enoch travels to learns the positions of luminaries and the explanation of the laws of gravity The book opened my eyes and helped me understand and raise some questions about Bible history.

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Summary: Still The best Enoch
Review: This book is the reprint of an old, but still unsurpassed study on the book of Enoch (the "Ethiopian" Enoch, or 1 Enoch). It does contain a serviceable translation of the Ethiopian text, but what makes this book indispensable is the scholarly analysis of the book and its importance for a New Testament scholar.

The well-known quotation of Enoch in Jude is mentioned, but also are many more passages of the NT that are seemingly derived from the book of Enoch. Also the many references to Enoch by the early Church Fathers are discussed.

This work is prophetic, in some way, because his analysis of the book leads the author to the conclusion that the original work was written partially in Hebrew and partially in Aramaic. This was, of course, some forty years before portions of the book were found (in Aramaic), among the Dead Sea Scrolls! And this prediction was made by studying a second-generation translation!

Also very useful for NT study are the Greek fragments reprinted in the book. This is because all references to Enoch in the NT are from the Greek translation, not from the Aramaic or the (conjectured) Hebrew version.

This is a reprint of an old book, so it is essentially a photocopy. However, the price is not excessive for such a valuable work. Also the pages are large, with very wide margins and the font size is reasonable (even in the footnotes). I have no problem reading the Greek text. I have the new version with the (tasteful) white cover. I got it from an Amazon marketplace purchase, and the seller advertised the white cover (and a lower than Amazon price too)!

In conclusion if you are a New Age kind of person, there are many other versions of the book of Enoch around, but for serious NT study, this is still an indispensable work. Now if only somebody could produce a reasonably-priced reissue of R. H. Charles's magnum opus, "The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament"!

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Summary: Ghastly...
Review: This book was not typeset by the publisher. It appears that the pages are Xeroxed (and poorly) copies of someone's term paper. The content (what can be read) is excellent, however the extremely poor print quality, makes this book virtually useless as a reference tool as far too many Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic characters are blurred or otherwise illegible.

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Summary: Poorly published.
Review: This book was not typeset by the publisher. It appears that the pages are Xeroxed (and poorly) copies of someone's term paper. The content (what can be read) is excellent, however the extremely poor print quality, makes this book virtually useless as a reference tool as far too many Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic characters are blurred or otherwise illegible.

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Summary: Not part of the canon...
Review: This book was worth the read, if only to discover why none of the early churches accepted the apocrypha (which includes this book). It is also to note that when the Catholic church DID decide to accept the apocrypha, they did not include this book. The concept of angels marrying humans is not only non-Scriptural, it is down-right heretic. Another problem with this book, is that it could not have been (and was not) written by Enoch as many are led to believe. This book was written around 100 AD. Enoch's time was millenia before! Also, regarding the mention of this book in Jude 14, it was mentioned as an example. Several other Biblical authors mention other books, but this in no way implies that those books are inspired by God; rather they are just used to help confirm, clarify, or illustrate a point. See also: Acts 17:28, 1 Corinthians 15:33, and Titus 1:12 for reference to other non-Scriptural books mentioned within the canon of The True Word of God.