The Book of Enoch: its Component Parts and their Dates

The Book of Enoch is now usually designated 1 Enoch, to distinguish it

from the later Apocalypse, _The Secrets of Enoch_, known as 2 Enoch. The

former is also called the Ethiopic Enoch, the latter the Slavonic Enoch,

after the languages of the earliest versions extant of each

respectively. No manuscript of the original language of either is known

to be in existence.

According to Canon Charles, the various elements of which our book in

its present form is made up belong to different dates. The following

table will show the dates of the different parts of the book. Canon

Charles believes that these are approximately correct, without

committing himself to the certainty of this in each case:

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