The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

En^ I i-ii SECOND COPY 165
He: n**^!^ iii 5. Full spellings: pH^ID iii 5 (but ^D^ iii 15, supralinear
addition); K^PIID ii 28, etc. The consonant (') is omitted in iv 10;
retained in final position, KDHID iii 15; omitted or kept, according to its
position, in the forms of X^a *Lord': iVlT^i iv 5 and Kl^a iii 14, X^D iii 14.
A superfluous final Aleph occurs in Klin iii i and ii 21 (add.). Pronouns: Kin
iii 14; r'pK ii 17; fr. 2; iv 9; ]in^33 iv 10; xna W Lord'
iii 14; relative pronoun always ''I, even before nouns: ^TID ii 26;
Xa^S7 ]a ""T iii 15. The names of masculine ordinal numbers from ^eleven' to
'nineteen* bear a curious form of the type "^IW ii 15-17; contrast
the normal type ^0X7 riDB? in En* i iii 9-12 (except K^OS? in, ibid, iii 9).
Verb: Pe*al imperative, ^TX iv 5; Pa'el perfect, VHB? ii 18 and iii 5; Aphel
imperative, iv 8 (reading uncertain); reflexive forms: 1^'7anX ii 4;
nannX iv 9. On the termination -a of the third person plural feminine of
the perfect, X'^in ii 2, see the introduction to En*.
Some rare terms occur in lines 26-8 of column ii.
The copy of 4QEn^ seems rather careless, unless it is a question of a
defective archetype the omissions and other errors of which had been
corrected by the same scribe, who may have used a better manuscript for his
corrections, a manuscript similar to 4QEn*, it would appear; see the note to
En^ I ii 25. Like En*, our scroll would have contained only the first book of
the Enochic Pentateuch, En. 1-36.
In general the identification of the several small fragments of En^, and
therefore the restoration of the text, remain highly problematical. The tiny
pieces, fragments 2 to 5, have not been placed.
4QEn^ 1 i (PI. VI)
[ ] 1-7
[ ] 9-a8
4QEn'' 1 ii—En. 5: 9-6: 4 and 6: 7-8:1 (Pis. VI, VII)
vacat
]in^^n] ^ai['']'''7[lD]
; naa iin*? MVTIK y^ba K-ara iwin W^JB? ^JID K^m«•
[xi"? XI2?3x nn p xi*? nnan bn mb m i'?'7]anxi