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1 Enoch 1: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 1–36; 81–108 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The first exhaustive commentary on this work since 1773! This volume represents the culmination of three decades’ work on the Book of 1 Enoch for author George W.E. Nickelsburg. He provides detailed commentary on each passage in chapters 1–36 and 81–108, and an introduction to the full work. The introduction includes sections on overviews of each of the smaller collections, texts and manuscripts,...

2.1.1. Aramaic the Original Language? Since the Ethiopic version of 1 Enoch was first introduced to the West at the beginning of the nineteenth century, scholars have almost universally acknowledged that the Ethiopic version derives from a Greek translation of a Semitic original, although they have debated whether that original was in Hebrew or Aramaic.2 The discovery of the Qumran Aramaic Enoch MSS. makes it virtually certain that Aramaic was the language in which chaps. 1–36, the Book of Giants,
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