The Book of Enoch exists only in the Ethiopic Version; this was
translated from the Greek Version, of which only a few portions are
extant.[15] The Latin Version, which was also made from the Greek, is
not extant, with the exception of i. 9, and cvi. 1-18; the fragment
containing these two passages was discovered by the Rev. M. R. James, of
King’s College, Cambridge, in the British Museum. The book was
originally written either in Hebrew or Aramaic; Charles thinks that
chapters vi.-xxxvi., lxxxiii.-xc. were Aramaic, the rest Hebrew. It is,
however, very difficult to say for certain which of these two languages
was really the original, because, as Burkitt says, “most of the most
convincing proofs that the Greek text of Enoch is a translation from a
Semitic language fit equally well with a Hebrew or an Aramaic original”;
his opinion is that Aramaic was the original language, “but that a few
passages do seem to suggest a Hebrew origin, yet not decisively.”[16]