1 Enoch
Anonymous Enochic writers
Chapter 28
About this work
A composite collection of Jewish visions, journeys through the heavens, and teachings about judgment and the world to come, attributed to Enoch. Its component dates are disputed, and the work survives chiefly in Ethiopic with earlier Aramaic and Greek witnesses.
- Author
- Anonymous Enochic writers
- Date
- Component dates disputed; principally Second Temple period
- Genre
- Apocalypse
- Textual language
- Aramaic; Ethiopic and Greek transmission
- Attribution
- Enoch
- Translator
- R. H. Charles
- Translation / Edition
- R. H. Charles translation, first published 1917.
XXVIII. 1. And thence I went 〚towards the east〛, into the midst 〚of the mountain range〛 of the desert, and I saw a wilderness and it was solitary, full of trees and plants. 2. 〚And〛 water gushed forth from above. 3. Rushing like a copious watercourse [which flowed] towards the north-west it caused clouds and dew to ascend on every side.