The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

THE SLAVONIC ENOCH 113
pp. 40-1) and in 2 Cor. 12: 2, 4 (pp. 4, 8-5, 2, chapter V); on this occasion
Enoch visits the infernal regions which are situated in the North of the
heaven, guarded by Satans, angels of punishment (p. 5, 3-17, chapter V;
cf. En. 53: 3 and above, p. 30). In the fourth heaven (whose number
corresponds to the day of their creation) are found the sun and the moon;
at this juncture the author summarizes the Astronomical Book of Enoch, in
particular the year of 364 days, but with several details which seem incomprehensible
(pp. 5, 18-8, 16, chapter VI).^ In the fifth heaven are found the
Watchers, Egrigoriy the brothers of the rebel angels of the second heaven;
the angels of the fifth heaven will be converted by Enoch to the service of
God (pp. 9, I-IO, 2, chapter VII). The sixth heaven is occupied by the
seven angels who regulate the life of the world, the seven phoenixes, the
seven Cherubim, and the seven angels with six wings, that is, the Seraphim
(p. 10, 3-16, chapter VIII). The celestial palace of the seventh heaven contains
the throne of God, surrounded by the fiery militias of incorporeal beings
{dacoixaroL in Byzantine theology). Cherubim, Seraphim, and Ophanim,
the last mentioned being borrowed from En. 61: 10 and 71: 7 (pp. 11, i-
13,3, chapter IX). The archangels Michael and Gabriel stand to the right and
left of God, the Christian iconographical position which is well established
in the Byzantine period; the archangel Ouriel (written Vretily et sim.; above,
p. 111) dictates his 360 books to Enoch. In a long speech the Lord explains to
Enoch, who has become the heavenly scribe and acolyte of Gabriel (p. 14,
3-4), his work of creation (pp. 14, 3-18, 17, chapters XI and XII; addition
of MS. R): God first created Adoil (etymology uncertain, perhaps a Greek and
Semitic hybrid: Hades+Er)y then 'the substructure of things below' named
Arouchas (probably the Hebrew feminine term HDHK, 'geographical basin',
transcribed with the masculine flexional ending Upovxaijy and finally the
creatures of Gen. i. The speech ends with the announcement of the flood
and the salvation of 'a just man of your race'.
The second part of the Slavonic Enoch contains a long moralizing sermon
by Enoch, interrupted with revelations obtained from heaven, addressed to
Methuselah and his brothers (cf. En. 91:1) and to the elders of the people
(cf. En. 37: 2-3), and finishing with the ascension of the patriarch (pp. 18,
19-32, 14, chapters XIII-XX). The farewells and the Assumption of Enoch
take place at Achouzan or Azouchan (pp. 28, i (Vaillant's interpretation), 30,
13, and 32, II. 20). I think that the fifteenth-century reviser surmised rightly
that this is a cryptic name of Jerusalem (p. 58, 3-5), or more exactly the hill
" Cf. O. Neugebauer, Orientalia, N.s. 33 (1964), p. 61.
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