Enoch - חנוך

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The Book of Enoch consists of the following sections, as identified in academic sources:
Book of Watchers (ch. 1-36), Book of Parables (ch. 37-71), Astronomical Book (ch. 72-82), Dream Visions (ch. 83-90), Epistle of Enoch (ch. 91-108)

Canonical Versions

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Ethiopic Enoch - in Ge'ez (Not included in the Beta Israel biblical canon, but included in the Beta Israel "secondary canon")	መጽሐፈ ፡ ሄኖክ ። ዐይን: Michael A. Knibb (all Greek and Aramaic fragments also included in apparatus) see also: an earlier critical edition from August Dillman, another early critical edition from Johannes Flemming, yet another early critical edition from Robert Henry Charles (alongside Greek and Latin fragments), text of Rylands Ms. 23 (basis for Knibb's edition) from The Online Critical Pseudepigrapha (Pierpaolo Bertalotto, ed.)	Manuscripts analysed by Knibb: "ETH I" family of mss. (generally an older text-type) (incl. one Beta Israel ms.): Berlin Or. Petermann II Nachtrag 29 (16th c.); d'Abbadie 55 (16th c.); BL Or. 485 (16th c.) [img: 205] (Beta Israel ms.); BL Or. 491 (18th c.) [img: 5] "Mixed" text-type (ETH I base with ETH II corrections): d'Abbadie 35 (17th c.) "ETH II" family of mss. (generally a newer, revised text-type) (incl. one Beta Israel ms.): d'Abbadie 30 (17th-18th c.) (Beta Israel ms.); Bodleian ms. Bruce 74 (18th c.); BL Or. 8822 (18th c.) [img. 9]; BL Or. 484 (18th c.) [img: 9]; BL Or. 486 (incomplete, 18th c.) [img: 3]; BL Or. 490 (18th c.) [img: 9]; BL Or. 492 (18th c.) [img: 13]; BL Or. 499 (18th c.) [img: 69]; Manchester Rylands ms. 23 (18th c.); d'Abbadie 16 (19th c.); d'Abbadie 99 (19th c.);
		Further manuscripts: Likely typical "early" mss.: EMML 2080 (14th-16th c.) [p: 4]; EMML 1768 (late 15th c.) [p: 5]; EMML 7584 (16th c.) [p: 5] Likely typical "standardised" ms.: EMML 7103 (1659) [p: 6] Likely typical "modern" ms.: IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible) (1934) [p: 273v] Potential "outlier" mss.: Cambridge ms. 1570 (1588, translated by Jacob the Israelite); Unesco 10-4 (17th-18th c.) [p: 4]; EMIP 949 (20th c.) [p: 5]

Non-canonical versions

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Dead Sea Scrolls Aramaic Book of Enoch The Book of Watchers, Dream Visions, and Epistle of Enoch largely match the Ge'ez text. The Astronomical Book is quite different from the Ge'ez text. The Book of Parables is not extant in Aramaic. A "Book of Giants" is present in the Aramaic that is not found in the Ge'ez text. - in Jewish Aramaic	חלקי ספר חנוך (לא כולל ספר המאורות); חלקי ספר המאורות מספר חנוך, עוד חלק ספר המאורות; ספר הענקים. Transcriptions only, no reconstructions. מקור: Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon See also Milik's edition: Book of Enoch (main portion), Astronomical Book of Enoch, Book of Giants (with transcriptions, notes, and extensive reconstructions) Text of all Enoch fragments arranged by verse (excludes the Book of Giants.) From Leiden Critical Pseudepigrapha.	See all Qumran Enoch fragments. Fragments organised by type: Fragments of the Book of Enoch (not incl. the Astronomical Book): 4Q201, 4Q202, 4Q204, 4Q205, 4Q206, 4Q207, 4Q212. Fragments of the Astronomical Book: 4Q208, 4Q209, 4Q210, 4Q211. Fragments of the Book of Giants: 1Q23, 1Q24, 2Q26, 4Q203, 4Q206, 4Q530, 4Q531, 4Q532, 4Q533. 4Q247 = Pesher on the Apocalypse of Weeks (Enoch 93:1–10; 91:11–17)
Greek Book of Enoch In extensive fragments. The Book of Parables is not attested among these fragments. (the identification of the Greek Qumran fragments with Enoch is heavily disputed.) -in Greek	Ἑνώχ πηγή: M. Black, Apocalypsis Henochi Graece. Excludes Oxyrhunchus and Qumran fragments. Charles' edition parallel to the Ge'ez text Shows different versions of Greek text in parallel. Excludes Oxyrhunchus, Chester Beatty, and Qumran fragments. Swete's edition Excludes Oxyrhunchus, Chester Beatty, and Qumran fragments. Online Critical Pseudepigrapha includes all fragments. Transcriptions of specific fragments: Vat.gr.1809 transcription; Chester Beatty XII transcription; Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2069 transcription (sans reconstructions); Oxyrhyncus P. 2069 identification with Enoch (with transcriptions and reconstructions. Full text not at this link.); Qumran fragments transcription sans reconstruction; disputed reconstructions of the Qumran Greek fragments.	Papyrus Cairo 10759 (Akhmim/Gizeh fragments) (Enoch 1-27); Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2069 (Enoch 77:7-78:1; 78:8; 85:10-86:2; 87:1-3); Vat.gr.1809 f. 216v (Enoch 89:42-49); Chester Beatty BPXII (Enoch 97-103; 106-107) Qumran Greek fragments possibly of the Epistle of Enoch: 7Q8, 7Q11, 7Q12, 7Q13, 7Q14. [Quotations of Enoch within later Greek works:] Georgius Syncellus' alternate recension of Enoch, assembled and preserved in his "Chronographia": first excerpt; second excerpt; third excerpt; fourth excerpt. Christian "New Testament" citation of Enoch: Jude 1:14, Jude 1:15.
Later Fragmentary Citations of Enoch - in Latin and Syriac Aramaic	Latin fragmentary citations: Pseudo-Cyprian and Pseudo-Vigilius, reference in 4 Ezra ch. 6, BL Royal Ms. 5 E XII, fol. 79v-80r fons: R.H. Charles (parallel to Ge'ez and Greek) Tertullian fons: J.T. Milik. Online Critical Pseudepigrapha (all Latin fragments). Syriac fragmentary citation: Syriac citation of Enoch in the Chronicle of Michael the Syrian [doc p. 5] Source: Brock, A Fragment of Enoch in Syriac

Related quasi-biblical texts

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Book of Noah A precursor text and source document for much of the Book of Enoch -in Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic	מגילת ספר נח (Hebrew fragments). מקור: מאגרים Elect of God or Birth of Noah (Aramaic fragments.) Source: CAL.	All Dead Sea Scrolls Book of Noah Fragments
Sefer Heikhaloth of Rabbi Ishmael (also called 3 Enoch) a midrashic work of Hechalot Literature inspired and influenced by the Book of Enoch -in Hebrew	ספר היכלות מהתנא רבי ישמעאל כהן גדול מקור: דפוס פיעטרקוב critical edition מקור: Hugo Odeberg

Significantly related biblical texts:

The book of Enoch primarily expands on characters and themes found in the Book of Genesis.

Later related text:

The Midrash of Semhazai and Azael draws on the Book of Giants

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