This edition was translated by R. H. Charles.

The Book of Enoch is, for the history of theological development, the most important pseudepigraph of the first two centuries B.C. Nearly all the writers of the New Testament were familiar with it, and were more or less influenced by it in thought and diction. It is quoted as a genuine production of Enoch by Jude, and as Scripture by Barnabas. The authors of The Book of Jubilees, the Apocalypse of Baruch, and 4 Ezra laid it under contribution. With earlier Fathers and Apologists, it had the weight of a canonical book.

The book comes from many writers and almost as many periods. It touches upon every subject that could have arisen in the ancient schools of the prophets, but naturally it deals in an advanced stage of development. Nearly every religious idea appears in a variety of forms. The history of the development of the higher theology during the two centuries before the Christian era could not be written without The Book of Enoch.

The authors of all sections belonged to the Chasida or their successors, the Pharisees. The book was written originally partly in Aramaic and partly in Hebrew. Up until the third century A.D., it was considered to be Scripture. After that time, it fell into discredit and gradually passed out of circulation.

Originally published in the United Kingdom in 1912, this edition was reproduced by Kessinger Publishing.