The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

ENOCH IN CABBALISTIC LITERATURE 129
This passage has been rather badly read and wrongly interpreted by Montgomery:
... m v } . . . P I mn** '?K''3ao!& -f? bi^rw 'JX-'SR NWA nw NNAN
*on account of the name of . . . Yophiel thy name, Yehiel they call thee,
Sasangiel, YHWH, and so . . . names . . [Ar]masa Metatron Yah*. He has not seen
that the beginning is written in Hebrew (as far as the second B?) and that the syntax of the
Hebraic phrase takes up that of line 2: ^73 ^57 ^n3Dnai DN[» n^D^D Tim D^»FL
D^'LDXN, *in thy name, thou who [sitteth on] high, and thy chariot (rests) on all the
wheels'.—The angel ^K^W occurs in our No. V below and on the bowl of the British
Museum No. 19745, published by C. H. Gordon {Orientaliay x (1941), 339-41), line 3 of
the text: b)X'n' XTi7 for the angelXTS7 see our No. HI.—The name of the
angel ^K^'MO is probably formed from the adjective saggt('), 'numerous', or else from
the verb in the Pael saggai, thus referring to the numerous names of God. Alternatively,
there might be an alteration of the Greek awrjyopos
to be read as ^X1320 ?; Metatron
is the niriD of men according to Echa Rabba, Intr. 24.—^^3** (reading uncertain),
phonetic form of mJT'? cf. n^'DH'' Ya{h)vih in Mo. 7, 8.
III. XNO^K ]nt3D^ai ^XTS71 XTS? ^^vh^^ xininpin X3p "7x1 nna'^a p
*by the word of "God who is zealous and revengeful (Nahum i: 2)", who
sent 'Aza and 'Aza'el and Metatron the great prince of His throne.'^
IV. XA'js; n^^DT nan XNO^x" ]nDD^aT n^»B?2i rv^wi n^ai&a
XThyD
NNIOXT XNO^'X "PXDM n^a^ai
*In the name of the holy heavens and in the name of Metatron the great
prince of the whole world and in the name of Raphael the prince of all
healings.'^
At the beginning, Gordon reads and translates: KB?*'lp 7\^W*2 TViyO'l *In His
name! In His holy name!'
V. "73 b)3 ILAA X I M " K m KNO'^K ]nt3DD nm^o PN^A^NM PIY'TOX*
bvi n^A!2?3... PNNA" xin n NNNFK} XNO^'K "^K^n^ DW21" [K]nn!& ^B?XT
» C. H. Gordon, Archiv Or. vi (1934), 328- Magical Texts, 1953, pp. 106-7 no. 27.
30 (Istanbul Museum No. 6519: excavations * Gordon, Archiv Or. ix (1937), 93-5, no. 1
of the Univ. of Pa. Expedition in 1888-9); and pi. VIII-IX (Nat. Mus. in Washington
= W. H. Rossell, A Handbook of Aramaic No. 207963); = Rossell, pp. 91-2 no. 16.
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