A Companion to the Book of Enoch: A Reader's Commentary, Vol I: The Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 1-36): A Reader's Commentary, Vol I: The Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 1-36): A Reader's Commentary, Vol II: The Parables of Enoch (1 Enoch 37-71)

The Book of Enoch was read and revered across the spectrum of Second Temple Judaism-those forms of Judaism that thrived in the "Intertestamental" period (ca. 500 B.C. to 100 A. D.). The book is more properly referred to as 1 Enoch in order to distinguish it from other books that bore the name Enoch which were composed later than this period (e.g., 2 Enoch, 3 Enoch).

Though 1 Enoch was and is not considered canonical Scripture by the majority of Jewis and Christian authorities in antiquity, t...