Bible Review

See Anthony J. Saldarini, Jesus and Passover (Ramsay, NJ: Paulist Press, 1984), p. 58.

Haroset is still served at Passover seders. Recipes vary in different parts of the world, but they always include chopped fruit and nuts, often bound together with wine and seasoned with spices.

On the dippings and the changes in the “child’s questions,” see endnote 10.

The Aramaic fragments include only traces of 1 Enoch 14:18–20 (and fragments of 14:1–16), but this is enough to allay any doubt that the original has been faithfully preserved in the full texts of 1 Enoch 14:18–20 in Greek and Ethiopic.

Brackets indicate reconstructed text that has not survived; parentheses indicate words that are properly understood with respect to words that have survived and are inserted for clarification ease of understanding.

A “watcher” is referred to in Daniel 4:13 and 23 as “a holy one, com[ing] down from heaven.”

In the same way, 2 Enoch is known Slavonic Enoch and 3 Enoch is known as Hebrew Enoch.

Our Enoch should be distinguished from another antediluvian patriarch of the same name, Enoch the son of Cain (Genesis 4:17–18). Cain built the first city and named it after his son Enoch. Our Enoch should also be distinguished from Enosh, son of Seth, who was born to Adam and Eve after Cain killed Abel (Genesis 4:25–26, 5:6).