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All 108 chapters, with Charles’s chapter and verse numbering intact. Set in type made for long reading and bound as a cloth hardcover.
All 108 chapters, with Charles’s chapter and verse numbering intact. Set in type made for long reading and bound as a cloth hardcover.
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Kinnaird Press does not rely on borrowed reviews. We offer something better: an ancient text whose history is a matter of public record, paired with a scholarly translation explicitly named and mapped.
Not part of the Jewish or most Christian canons, 1 Enoch is canonical in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, which copied and read it in Ge’ez for centuries. The Ethiopic is the only version to survive complete; every English edition, this one included, descends from it.
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo broader canon.
Aramaic fragments found at Qumran show the book was being copied and read in Judea before the turn of the era. They establish its age and circulation — not its claims, which are a separate question the text invites you to weigh yourself.
Aramaic Enoch fragments, Qumran Cave 4.
The Epistle of Jude quotes 1 Enoch 1:9 and attributes the prophecy to Enoch, “the seventh from Adam”. A book most readers have never opened was familiar to the writer of one they have.
1 En. 1:9, quoted at Jude 14–15.
The Scottish traveller James Bruce returned from Abyssinia with copies of the Ethiopic Enoch. One of them, now in the Bodleian, was the manuscript Richard Laurence used for the first English translation in 1821. Bruce’s estate in Stirlingshire was called Kinnaird — this imprint is named for it.
James Bruce, Abyssinia, 1773; Laurence’s translation, 1821.
1 Enoch is in the public domain, so anyone may publish it, and many do. Four questions will tell you what any edition is worth — this one included. Apply them wherever you end up buying.
Translating 1 Enoch from Ge’ez is a scholarly act, and the translator’s name is the single fastest way to judge an edition. An edition that will not name one is telling you something.
This editionR. H. Charles (1855–1931), Archdeacon of Westminster, whose version was the standard English text for much of the twentieth century.
Every English Enoch descends from a particular edition of the Ethiopic. Without a stated source and date you cannot tell what you are reading, or check it against anything.
This editionThe Book of Enoch or 1 Enoch, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912 — Charles’s own edition of the Ethiopic text.
The numbering is how the text is cited, compared and studied. Editions that reflow it into unbroken prose cannot be used alongside any commentary or scholarly reference.
This editionAll 108 chapters, with Charles’s chapter and verse numbering preserved and kept clear of the text block.
Every translation has a horizon. An edition that claims to be definitive is telling you what it wants, not what it is.
This editionCharles worked before the Qumran discoveries. The introduction notes where later scholarship has revised him.
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R. H. Charles translated both of the books the Qumran library kept alongside each other. Kinnaird Press is setting them to match, one volume at a time.
tr. R. H. Charles · Oxford, 1912
All 108 chapters, with Charles’s chapter and verse numbering intact. The Ethiopic text the Tewahedo Church preserved, in the translation that became the standard English version.
tr. R. H. Charles · SPCK, 1917
Genesis retold as it was read at Qumran, dated by jubilees of forty-nine years. Charles’s translation from the Ethiopic, as issued in the Translations of Early Documents series.
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Both books, bound to match, printed in one job and sent in one parcel. Enoch and Jubilees were copied together at Qumran and kept together in the Ethiopian canon; they belong on a shelf the same way.
Both volumes are printed to the same specification and, ordered together, are produced in a single print job and sent in one parcel. Photography on this page is for illustrative purposes only and does not represent the final physical book.
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