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Robert Charles (scholar)

Robert Henry Charles, was an Irish Anglican theologian, biblical scholar, professor, and translator from Northern Ireland. He is known particularly for his English translations of numerous apocryphal and pseudepigraphal Ancient Hebrew writings, including the Book of Jubilees (1895), the Apocalypse of Baruch (1896), the Ascension of Isaiah (1900), the Book of Enoch (1906), and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (1908), which have been widely used. He wrote the articles in the eleventh edition of Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) attributed to the initials "R. H. C."

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The Book of Enoch, Oxford: Clarendon, 1893, reprinted in 1895. Republished by Boston, MA: Samuel Weiser; 2003. • The Ethiopic Version of the Hebrew Book of Jubilees, Oxford: Clarendon, 1895. • The Apocalypse of Baruch, London: Black, 1896. • • The Assumption of Moses, London: Black, 1897. • A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, London: Black, 1899. 1999 reprint of 2nd edition • Ascension of Isaiah, London: Black, 1900. • The Book of Jubilees or the Little Genesis, London: Black, 1902. • Encyclopaedia Biblica (contributor), 1903 • The Ethiopic Version of Book of Enoch, Oxford: Clarendon, 1906. • The Greek Versions of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. • trans. The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs), London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. • ''The Book of Enoch or 1 Enoch: Translated from the Editor's Ethiopic Text'', Oxford: Clarendon, 1912. • Fragments of a Zadokite Work. Translated from the Cambridge Hebrew Text and edited with Introduction, Notes, and Indexes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912. • Studies in the Apocalypse, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1913. • 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. Republished in 1976. • Religious Development Between the Old and the New Testaments, William and Norgate, 1914. Republished in 1925. • • Lectures on the Apocalypse, Schweich Lecture for 1919. • A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, 2 vols., Edinburgh: Clark, 1920. • The Teaching of the New Testament on Divorce, London: Williams & Norgate, 1921 • A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Daniel, Oxford: Clarendon, 1929. ==References==
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