Robert Henry Charles was an English biblical scholar and theologian. He is known particularly for English translations of apocryphal and pseudepigraphal works, and editions including Jubilees

Jubilees

The Book of Jubilees , sometimes called Lesser Genesis , is an ancient Jewish religious work, considered one of the pseudepigrapha by Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Churches...

(1895), the Book of Enoch

Book of Enoch

The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish religious work, traditionally ascribed to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. It is not part of the biblical canon as used by Jews, apart from Beta Israel...

(1906), and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs

Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs

The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is a constituent of the apocryphal scriptures connected with the Bible. It is a pseudepigraphical work comprising the dying commands of the twelve sons of Jacob. It is part of the Oscan Armenian Orthodox Bible of 1666. Fragments of similar writings were...

(1908) which have been widely used.

He was educated at the Belfast Academy, Queen's College, Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin

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. He gained a D.D.

Doctor of Divinity

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 and became Professor of Biblical Greek at Trinity College. He also became archdeacon

Archdeacon

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 of Westminster

Westminster

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.

Select 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.
• 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.
• 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
  Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology
  The Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology are a series of lectures delivered and published under the auspices of the British Academy. The Leopold Schweich Trust Fund, set up in 1907, was a gift from Miss Constance Schweich in memory of her father...
  
  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.

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