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Where each text comes from, and the licence under which it may be reused.
The First Book of Enoch
English translation by R. H. Charles, from The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch) , translated from Professor Charles’s Edition of the Ethiopic Text, with an introduction by W. O. E. Oesterley (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1917; Translations of Early Documents , Series I, Palestinian Jewish Texts, Pre-Rabbinic); public domain, as transcribed by David King and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team for Project Gutenberg (ebook 77935). SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1917 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.
The Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch)
English translation by N. Forbes and R. H. Charles, from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English , edited by R. H. Charles, volume 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1913 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Charles’s introduction to the book, the headings and summaries he added, his notes and the record of the manuscript readings at the foot of the page, and the Greek, Hebrew and Latin words quoted in them are also left out, and so is the shorter second recension (B) that Charles prints beside the first, which the OCR runs together with it in many places. Only the first recension (A) is given here. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1913 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.
The Book of Jubilees
English translation by R. H. Charles, from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English , edited by R. H. Charles, volume 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1913 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Charles’s long introduction, the summary he printed above each chapter, his notes and the record of the manuscript readings at the foot of the page are also left out, and so are the marginal dates in years of the world and the daggers that mark passages he thought corrupt. Where the OCR mixed the numbers that Charles printed in the margin of the verses with line numbers, the verse number is left out rather than guessed. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1913 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.
Fragments of a Zadokite Work (the Damascus Document)
English translation by R. H. Charles, from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English , edited by R. H. Charles, volume 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1913 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Charles’s introduction to the book, the headings and summaries he added, his notes and the record of the manuscript readings at the foot of the page, and the Greek, Hebrew and Latin words quoted in them are also left out. The second recension (B), where Charles prints it under the first, is left out, and so are the editor’s headings for each section; where a word in the manuscript is lost or doubtful, the signs Charles used (round and square brackets and daggers) are kept as printed. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1913 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.
The Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch (2 Baruch)
English translation by R. H. Charles, from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English , edited by R. H. Charles, volume 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1913 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Charles’s introduction to the book, the headings and summaries he added, his notes and the record of the manuscript readings at the foot of the page, and the Greek, Hebrew and Latin words quoted in them are also left out. The OCR could not read the text of chapter 27 from the middle of verse 4 to verse 5, and the place is marked in the text. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1913 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.
The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch)
English translation by H. M. Hughes, from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English , edited by R. H. Charles, volume 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1913 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Charles’s introduction to the book, the headings and summaries he added, his notes and the record of the manuscript readings at the foot of the page, and the Greek, Hebrew and Latin words quoted in them are also left out. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1913 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.
The Apocalypse of Abraham (Roumanian text)
English translation by Moses Gaster, from the Roumanian text, in the Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, vol. 9 (1893); public domain. The text was transcribed for Roger Pearse’s collection Early Church Fathers – Additional Texts (tertullian.org/fathers). SermonIndex has removed the page numbers and the footnotes and divided the text into sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Greek words that occur in the text are given in Latin letters. Licence: Public domain.
The Assumption of Moses
English translation by R. H. Charles, from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English , edited by R. H. Charles, volume 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1913 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Charles’s introduction, his notes at the foot of the page and his record of the readings of the manuscript are also left out. The text is a translation of an incomplete Latin manuscript, and Charles marks his restorations and the passages he thought were added later with brackets, which are kept. Verse numbers that the OCR lost are left out rather than guessed. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1913 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.
The Ascension of Isaiah
English translation by R. H. Charles, from The Ascension of Isaiah , translated from the Ethiopic version, the Greek fragments, the Latin versions and the Slavonic, edited with introduction, notes and indices by R. H. Charles (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1900); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan from Cornell University Library at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Charles’s long introduction, his notes, the record of readings in the Greek, Latin and Slavonic versions, and the appendix and indexes are also left out; the daggers that mark doubtful readings are removed. This is Charles’s translation of the Ethiopic version, with the words that he supplies from the other versions in round brackets. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1900 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.
The Testament of Abraham
English translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers (edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe; New York, 1885–1896; public domain), translated by W. A. Craigie, as transcribed by volunteers of English Wikisource . SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation is in the public domain (published before 1929). The Wikisource transcription is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; we credit it here. Licence: Public domain.
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (Ante-Nicene translation)
Authorship. This is a pseudepigraphal book: the deathbed speeches it puts in the mouths of Jacob’s twelve sons were not spoken by them. Scholars disagree about how much is Jewish and how much was added by Christians. Source. English translation: an older public-domain translation as collected in the Writings-Database (HistoricalChristianFaith), mostly from the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers and similar nineteenth-century editions. SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No modern English version has been made. Licence: Public domain.
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (Charles translation)
English translation by R. H. Charles, from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English , edited by R. H. Charles, volume 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1913 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Charles’s introduction, his notes at the foot of the page, the record of the manuscript readings and the two appendices (the late Hebrew Testament of Naphtali and the Aramaic and Greek fragments) are also left out. Where the manuscripts differ so much that Charles prints two or three versions of a passage one after the other, only his main text is given, and the daggers that mark passages he thought corrupt are removed. Verse numbers that the OCR lost are left out rather than guessed. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1913 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.