1 Enoch: An Ethiopic Reader’s Edition (Resources for Biblical Study Book 110)

The book of 1 Enoch is one of the most remarkable literary products of Second Temple Judaism. Attributed to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, the text provides details about how some early Jews understood the cosmos, angels, the corruption of humanity, and coming judgment. Despite 1 Enoch’s importance for understanding early Jewish and Christian eschatology, its complicated textual history has left the work largely inaccessible in its original languages. With the tools provided in this volume, Vladimir Olivero takes intermediate students of Ethiopic through 1 Enoch in one of its primary languages, Ge‘ez. Students not only gain greater facility in language but prepare themselves for more advanced textual study of this important text across its various witnesses. Olivero parses all the verbs and provides English glosses for the verbs and nouns that appear in 1 Enoch. A convenient lexicon and concordance at the end of the volume provide the range of translations available for each word occurring in 1 Enoch and a list of passages in which the term occurs. This volume is perfect for independent learning, classroom settings, or as a refresher to Classical Ethiopic.Vladimir Olivero is Preceptor in Classical Hebrew at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and at Harvard Divinity School at Harvard University, where he teaches Hebrew and other languages from the ancient world. His research focuses on the Semitic languages, biblical textual criticism, and the Septuagint with its daughter versions. Read more