1 Enoch
Anonymous Enochic writers
Chapter 4
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.
IV. And again, observe ye the days of summer how the sun is above the earth over against it. And you seek shade and shelter by reason of the heat of the sun, and the earth also burns with glowing heat, and so you cannot tread on the earth, or on a rock by reason of its heat.