The Book of Enoch

collections of proverbs, so the name of Enoch attracted various treatments of celestial and terrestrial phenomena as well as the problem of why the righteous suffer.

III. The history of important concepts that appear frequently in Enoch—such as Hades, the Resurrection, the Messiah, etc.—is traced only briefly. This is because the present writer hopes to issue an independent work later on the Eschatology the branch of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and humankind of pre-Christian Apocryphal and Apocalyptic literature.

IV. An attempt is made to give some account of Enoch’s influence on subsequent literature, especially that of the New Testament.

I hope to publish the Slavonic Enoch, which is mentioned occasionally in the following pages, shortly. This Apocryph a biblical or related text not forming part of the accepted canon of scripture, which is critically revised and translated by my friend Mr. Morfill, the Reader in Russian and other Slavonic languages, will be furnished with an Introduction and Notes.

The many changes introduced into the text when it was already in type, as well as the incorporation of much fresh material, have made, I fear, the presence of occasional errors inevitable. I shall be grateful for any corrections.

My best thanks are due to Dr. Sanday, to whom I am under manifold obligations, and in connection with whose Seminar this work was primarily undertaken; to Dr. Neubauer, whom I have consulted with advantage in season and out of season; to Professor Margoliouth, for his courteous and ever-ready help in questions affecting the Ethiopic text; and finally and chiefly to my wife, whose constant sympathy and unwearied labor in the verification of references and the formation of indices have materially lightened the burden of my work.

R. H. CHARLES.

APRIL, 1893