Robert Henry Charles (1855-1931), scholar

Robert Henry Charles (1855-1931) was a British scholar.

Biography

Biblical scholar and theologian. Leading authority in the study of the OT Pseudepigrapha and Jewish apocalypticism. Arguably, the most influential British scholar at the turn of the century in shaping the nascent field of Second Temple Jewish studies.

Works

Books

• The Book of Enoch (Oxford 1893)
• The Apocalypse of Baruch (London 1896)
• The Assumption of Moses (London 1897)
• A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life in Israel, in Judaism and in Christianity]] (London 1899)
• The Ethiopic Version of the Book of Enoch (Oxford 1906)
• Fragments of a Zadokite Work (Oxford 1912)
• The Book of Enoch; or, 1 Enoch (Oxfrod 1912)
• The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English, 2 vols. (Oxford 1913)
• Religious Development between the Old and the New Testament (London 1914)
• The Book of Enoch (London 1917)
• (with George H. Box). The Book of Jubilees; or, The Little Genesis (London 1917)
• (with William O.E. Oesterley). The Book of Enoch (London 1929)