The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

THE ETHIOPIC BOOK OF ENOCH 85
y. Munich 30. Enoch only, 61 ff. Seventeenth century.
z. Paris 50. Enoch and other works. Seventeenth century.
1^. Paris 49. Copy of 6. Eighteenth century.
1^. Garrett MS. Enoch only. Nineteenth or end of eighteenth century.
16. Westenholz MS. Enoch only (106 chapters). Eighteenth century.
W. Baars of the University of Leiden has drawn my attention to three
other manuscripts of the Ethiopic Enoch in European libraries (letter of
17 January 1970):
Cambridge, Univ. Libr., Add. 1570, f. i*-i6\ Year 1588.
London, British and Foreign Bible Society Libr. ix, ff. i*-65^. Seventeenth
century.
Rome, Pontificio Istituto Biblico Library, no. Banco A-a; 11, ff. 1-42
(En. i: 1-108: 15).
There must obviously be yet others in Abyssinian monasteries, besides the
two copies known in the monastery of Gunda Gunde.^
As can be seen from Charles's list, the Book of Enoch is usually combined
with the Ethiopic Bible, either at the beginning (before or after the Octateuch),
or beside the Book of Job, the Book of Daniel, or books attributed
to Solomon. There is only one manuscript which perhaps goes back to the
fifteenth century (w); four belong to the sixteenth (^, j^, q and the Univ. of
Cambridge MS.); some to the seventeenth {ptxyz and perhaps w)\ the
majority to the eighteenth, and three to the nineteenth century {frv). The
manuscripts of class a which retain, rather sporadically, some more archaic
features, are gigmqtu (and to a certain extent n)\ *the best all-round MS.' is
probably g. However, it does happen occasionally that the whole of class j8,
or some individual manuscripts of this group, contain readings which are
nearer the original than the secondary variants of class a.^
Strangely enough, no edition of the Ethiopic Enoch takes account of the
numerous quotations of this book to be found in the national Ge'ez literature.3
Here is a provisional list of Enochic quotations in printed texts; a few
of these references will be mentioned below, passim. (N.B. ^r/".' indicates
' W. Baars and R. Zuurmond, Journal of remark: *Eslohntnicht der Miihe, die grosseren
Semitic Studies, 9 (1964), 73.
oder kleineren Bruchstucke imseres Werkes,
* On the textual value of all the MSS. of welche die Handschriftenkataloge als Teil
class a, see Charles, 1912, pp. xxv-xxvii. dieser oder jener Compilation verzeichnen, zu
^ I do not at all agree with Flemming's beriicksichtigen.'