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To: Alamo-Girl; Quix
What is your opinion of the translation found in The New Jerusalem Bible?
72 posted on 08/21/2009 9:06:52 AM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: shibumi; Quix
I have not compared the Ephraim Issac translation of Enoch (Charlesworth's Pseudepigrapha circa 1983) to the Catholic New Jerusalem Bible circa 1985.

However, the Catholic Encyclopedia commentary references the Charles translation circa 1893 - obviously long before the Dead Sea Scrolls discovery. This leads me to suspect the NJB translation of 1 Enoch is Charles'.

Again, I recommend Charlesworth's Pseudepigrapha for those looking for the most current, scholarly translation - comparing phrase by phrase via footnotes - the ancient 1 Enoch (Ethiopic) texts themselves as well as Charles' translation et al. Charlesworth's Pseudepigrapha also includes 2 Enoch (Slavonic) and Enoch (Hebrew.)

There just isn't a basis for comparison of his work to a single book translation.

73 posted on 08/21/2009 9:44:46 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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