Robert Henry Charles

Robert Henry Charles

Robert Henry Charles (1855-1931) was an English biblical scholar and theologian. He is known particularly for English translations of apocryphal and pseudepigraphal works, and editions including "Jubilees" (1895), the "Book of Enoch" (1906), and the "Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs" (1908) which have been widely used.

He was educated at Queen's College, Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin. He became archdeacon of Westminster.

elect Bibliography

* The Book of Enoch, Oxford: Clarendon, 1893.
* The Book of Enoch, Oxford: Clarendon, 1895.
* The Ethiopic Version of the Hebrew Book of Jubilees, Oxford: Clarendon, 1896.
* The Apocalypse of Baruch, London: Black, 1896. and W. R. Morfill, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch, Oxford: Clarendon, 1896.
* The Assumption of Moses, London: Black, 1897.
* A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, London: Black, 1899.
* Ascension of Isaiah, London: Black, 1900.
* The Book of Jubilees or the Little Genesis, London: Black, 1902.
* The Ethiopic Version of Book of Enoch, Oxford: Clarendon, 1906.
* The Greek Versions of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, Oxford: Clarendon, 1908.
* The Book of Enoch or 1 Enoch: Translated from the Editor's Ethiopic Text, Oxford: Clarendon, 1912.
* Eschatology: The Doctrine of a Future Life in Israel, Judaism and Christianity, London: Black, 1913 (rpt. New York: Schocken 1963 with an introduction by G. W. Buchanan).
* ed. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, 2 vols.; Oxford: Clarendon, 1913.
* Lectures on the Apocalypse, Schweich Lecture for 1919.
* A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, 2 vols., Edinburgh: Clark, 1920.
* A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Daniel, Oxford: Clarendon, 1929.
* T. W. Manson, "Charles, Robert Henry," in The Dictionary of National Biography, 1931-40, ed. L. G. Wickham Legg, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1949, pp. 169-70.

References

* "Concise Dictionary of National Biography"


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