The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

En» I vi FIRST COPY 163
[. . . 2^And all the sons of men] shall become righteous, and [all of them
shall be offering adoration, and every nation shall be praising me] and shall
prostrate itself. [^^And the whole earth shall be cleansed from all defilement
and from all impurity. And] I will [never again] send [upon them any wrath
nor castigation for all generations of worlds.
11 ^And] then I will [open . . . .] *Ye have wrought [great devastation]
on the earth; [^and ye shall have no peace nor have forgiveness (of sin).*
^And concerning] those in whom they delight [themselves, concerning
their children, the murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over]
the destruction [of their sons shall they lament. . .]
The identification of both fragments remains somewhat uncertain.
Texts to be compared: C and E.
LI. 3-4 (En. 10: 21). The first clause, way^kunu kwillu wiluda sab^^isdduqdna
in E, is omitted
by homoeoarcton, koI eaovrai in C. This omission produced a certain disturbance
in the following phrases. Originally there was a double distich, with parallel clauses, the
first concerning all righteous men, and the second every (converted) nation. As for the verbal
forms, the Aramaic had probably a cross-parallelism, finite form: participle//participle: finite
form.
L. 3. ]1t3B?pn'', si vera lectio, had a declarative nuance: all men shall be declared, proclaimed
righteous.
LI. 3/4. The text of C, ol Xaol kol evXoyovvTcs Trdvres ifiol Kal wpoaKoivovvTcs, has to be corrected
to Kal navres
ol Xaol €vX, efiol Kal trp. Anyhow, judging by *'D1[n]m of line 4, the
original subject of the sentence was in the singular.
LI. 4-6 (En. 10: 22). Here again an original double distich, with partially parallel clauses,
was disturbed by the transfer of {koX} opyfjs Kal pLaariyoSy which certainly belongs to the following
sentence with the predicate 7RE/x0a> and originally followed it. I suggest that the translation
of the Aramaic partitive phrases B^flDD ]D1 TIT ]Q, meaning 'anything of (my) wrath and
anything of (my) castigation', by Greek partitive genitives caused the attraction of these nouns
to the genitives in the preceding sentence: ATRO iravros pudpipiaTos koX ATRO Trdcnqs dKaBapalas,
L. 5. The verb Hltt^X = iripL^oj, has here the primary meaning of its Pa'el and Aphel tenses,
*descendere fecit*.—^The equivalence t&UDfi = p^dari^ is certain in a passage of Tobith:
•'D^'^UDD b[D] '?[S7] of 4QTobarama 2 iii 4 = inl ndaais rats pidari^lv gov of Tob. 13: 16.
LI. I5-I6(En. 12:4-5). This section is in direct speech depending on /CAT CITTC at the beginning
of verse 4: Enoch is meant to address the Watchers. In verse 6 the archangel takes up his
indirect discourse. For the 'great Watcher and holy one' of 12: 3 see En^ i v 19-20.
LI. 15/16 (En. 12: 5). I retranslate the strong adverb ourc by the repetition of the verb
Kin"? X^l.
LI. 16-17 (En. 12: 6). Note that the first ]n*'3!3 and ]n*'D*'3n are synonyms, whilst the
second ]n''33 refers to the sons of 'the beloved ones'. The same distinction between the
children and grandchildren of the Watchers, i.e. between Giants and Nephilim, occurs in
En