# The book of Enoch

Author: Charles, R. H. (Robert Henry), 1855-1931 [Translator]; Oesterley, W. O. E. (William Oscar Emil), 1866-1950 [Contributor]

Genre: Apocryphal books (Old Testament)

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77935

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## Summary

While these dates may be regarded as approximately correct, it should be pointed out that differences of opinion exist among scholars on the subject. Schürer holds, for example, that, with the exception of chapters xxxvii.-lxxi. (the “Parables,” or “Similitudes”), the entire book belongs to the period 130-100 B.C.; the “Parables” he assigns to a time not earlier than Herod the Great. Beer thinks that the “Dream-Visions” (chapters lxxxiii.-xc.) belong to the time of John Hyrcanus (135-105 B.C.), and he includes under the pre-Maccabæan portions only xci. 12-17, xcii. xciii. 1-14; and holds that the rest of the book was written before 64 B.C. Dalman maintains that it cannot be proved that th...

## Chapters

- [chapter lxxx. this book is uninteresting in the extreme; it purports to](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-enoch-77935/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter cv, which consists of only two verses, cannot be dated; while](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-enoch-77935/chapters/1/index.md)