Robert Henry Charles (1855-1931), scholar
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Robert Henry Charles (1855-1931) was a British scholar.
Biography
Biblical scholar and theologian. Educated at the Belfast Academy, Queen's College, Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin. 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 on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- The Book of Enoch (Charles 1893), book
- The Apocalypse of Baruch (Charles 1896), book
- The Assumption of Moses (Charles 1897), book
- A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life in Israel, in Judaism and in Christianity (Charles 1899), book
- The Ethiopic Version of the Book of Enoch (Charles 1906), book
- Fragments of a Zadokite Work (Charles 1912), book
- The Book of Enoch; or, 1 Enoch (Charles 1912), book
- The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (Charles 1913), book
- Religious Development between the Old and the New Testament (Charles 1914), book
- The Book of Enoch (Charles 1917), book
- (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)