Note 490 — Chapter V · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ESSENES

F. C. Porter in Hastings’ Dict. of Bible, s.v. Apocrypha, and Wellhausen as there quoted. A list of the books comprised in the expression used in the text with conjectural dates and authorship is given by R. H. Charles in the same work, s.v. Apocalyptical Literature. Cf. article under same heading (also by Charles) in Encyclopaedia Biblica. Prof. Charles is less inclined than earlier writers (e.g. Lightfoot and Kohler, opp. cit.) to credit the Essenes with the composition of the whole of this literature; but he admits that part of the Book of Enoch, chap. cviii. 1-15, is by Essene hands. The other parts attributed to the Essenes by Sieffert, Tideman, and Cheyne are indicated by him in The Book of Enoch, Oxford, 1893, pp. 13, 14, 21.