1 Enoch: The Hermeneia Translation

by George W.E. Nickelsburg and James C. VanderKam

Book Overview

1 Enoch was an important and popular text in ancient Judaism, well attested among the manuscripts at Qumran, and a key piece of the puzzle of the development of early Judaism and Christian origins. George W. E. Nickelsburg and James C. VanderKam have now revised their translation in conjunction with their publication of the complete two volumes on 1 Enoch in the Hermeneia commentary series. This is the only English translation of 1 Enoch that takes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800699106
• ISBN13: 9780800699109
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

The best translation of 1 Enoch but with some issues

This, to my knowledge, is the best edition of 1 Enoch out there, but my sole issue that made me take off a couple of stars is that the print quality was poor. Some pages have light print and one page had print so poor some portions of the text are obscured, which made a sentence unreadable. None of my issues are from the quality of the scholarship or the text itself, however, just the print quality.