1 Enoch, The Book of Watchers: New Translation

The First Book of Enoch(Ethiopian Enoch), or "The Book of Watchers," is a well-known Jewish composition from the Second Temple era. Many popular English translations of Jewish extrabiblical texts were completed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, often mimicking the archaic vernacular of the most popular Bible of the bygone era. Since most Enoch scholars agree that the text was originally Aramaic or Hebrew, this new translation seeks to create a sense that one is reading a Semitic text, periodically using Hebrew vernacular alongside English.This new translation presents the ancient text in modern, easy-to-read English. The primary goal of this new translation was to produce the text of Enoch accessible to an average modern reader, intelligible, and aesthetically enjoyable.Read more