The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

i6o THE BOOKS OF ENOCH En* i iv
(d) Not the 'seventh', but the fifteenth angel. The conftision can be explained in the same
way as that of the Sth angel-teacher; see preceding note.
(e) Not the 'twentieth', but the sixteenth angel; see the two preceding notes.
nSH;
L. I of En* I iv. The term inaoLSds in C (and in E; S corrupt) here translates the Aramaic
immediately afterwards, line 2 (and cf. En. 7:1; note to En* i iii 15), the same term
renders ISB^D and iat3*in. The Greek translator could hardly have understood the nuances
of the magical Jewish expressions very well.
LI. 1/2. The corresponding passage in C and E is much abridged. The text of S is relatively
close to that of the original: {6 Se ivSeKaros 0}apixap6s iSlSaie appLaK€iav (plural S)
XvT'qpiov €7Taoihwv (this phrase is moved in S to the end after aolas: kol iiraoiSwv
Apfiapcbs eiraotSojv Xvrrjpiov C and E) inaoiSds
Xvrqpia;
aoias. The first two angel-teachers
of En. 8: 3 taught their wives the magic arts, just as the angel in En. 8: i instructed men in
technical
knowledge.
LI. 2-4. Names of the teachers in astrological, meteorological, and cosmographical sciences.
The scheme of it is uniform: (i) theophoric proper name, (2) phrase 'taught the signs of
((ny/icta; Aramaic *'l&n3, 'fortunes, fates', doubtless horoscopes and auguries taken from the
positions of the stars and from natural phenomena), (3) first component term of the theophoric
name, taken up just as it is or put into the absolute plural.
LI. 4-5. Only S among the versions has kept this phrase, adding to it icat toIs tckvols
it is followed by the r6sum6 of 7: 3-5.
avrwv;
LI. 5-6 (En. 8: 4). Word for word 'and as a result of the death of one part of the men, the
voice rose up towards heaven', which corresponds quite well to rwv odv {rovvow MS.) d[v]7rwv
dTToXXvpiivwv -q Po[rj\ els ovpavovs dvc^rj in C. S paraphrases this clause and follows it with
En. 9: 2-3, anticipated here (S' only the anticipated phrases).
LI. 6-8 (En. 9: i). S and S' are closer to the original than C, which omits any reference to the
injustice perpetrated on earth (phrase retained in E).
L. 6. S and S' replace j?''lK y^l^ = rdrc TrapeKvipav (cf. rore 7rap[a]Kvil/avT€s in C) by
Kal dKovaavres ol reaaapes {fJieyaXoi dpxdyyeXoi} (the phrase with which verse 2 probably
begins) ... irapeKv^av.—The name of the second archangel is written 'PK*'*!!!? in En^ i iii 7;
see the note ad loc.
LI. 7-8. The phrase in S, S', E, koL Trdaav daepeiav koI dvofilav (dvopilav Kal dai^eiav S')
y€vop.€V7}v eTT* avTTjs ('on the earth' E), abridges the Aramaic phrase.
Lines 8-10 (En. 9: 2) remain uncertain. I reconstruct the beginning of this passage in accordance
with S and S', where this beginning is moved to the beginning of verse i. For the expression
nnS7mX, 'the four (archangels)', = oi Teaaapes in S and S', cf. XnS7!l[*1X] in
En«4 i 13 (En. 89: i); alternatively ]nnS73*lX, cf. ]iny!ll& (to be understood as ]inhy3il&),
'the seven of them, the seven (angels)' in the Aramaic Testament of Levi, Cairo Geniza manuscript,
Bodl. a, line 9 (see P. Grelot, Revue biblique, 1956, pp. 398-9).—^Then I restore the
predicate in line with elcreXOovres in S and S', verse 2.—^The correspondence PI'^T^'^P
of En* and Trpos oAA^Aow of S and S' is not clear to me.—^The remainder of verse 2 is omitted
in S, but it is preserved in part in C, and even better in E, where the expression 'the devastated
earth (cries)', 'erdqd (sarhat)
mSdir, seems to be a shortened form of the phrase 'on account