The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

I70 THE BOOKS OF ENOCH En" I ii-iii
'S"? MNYA*?, which was probably translated in Greek more or less as follows: icat eTrl rov
apyvpov els rrjv ipyaalav avrov tf/eXia, C, after {/cat} ipeXiay continues with Kal Koapuovs, to which
should be added rats ywat^l as in Koapua rats ywai^l of S (see above). I retranslate Koapuovs
(the plural is unusual) by the plural of N*'DSn, which normally corresponds to Koap^os in
many Palmyrene bilingual inscriptions; it is also used in Syriac for women's finery and jewels.
L. 28. After Kal rov dpyvpov ^ .)>, S reads eSei^e Se avrots koI ro ariXfieiv Kal ro KaXXaml^evv.
C omits the predicate, as it had used it shortly before, Kal imeSi^ev avrols rd p^eydXa (sic),
where S on the other hand had omitted it. Considering, however, that the whole line is about
women's cosmetics and adornments, we should read avrats in S, or rather suppose a haplographed
repetition of rats yvvai^l. The word ro arlXpeiv is a corruption of rrjv arl^eiv, preserved
in C {areipeisy undeclinable), and denotes *the black of antimony' used as an eye-liner and
a mascara for eyelashes: X^mD in En^ and known in all Semitic languages {takwSMlota in E).
TertuUian, De cultu fem. i 2, talks of the 'bracelets' of gold {sic), and the 'antimony': 'et circulos
ex auro quibus brachia artantur, et ilium ipsum nigrum pulverem quo oculorum exordia producuntur'.
On the other hand, XT'lS (also in Syriac) = KaXXipXeapov (C; transcribed by
TertuUian together with the translation of ra jSa^t/ca, tincturas; see above, p. 78) refers to the
eye-shadow, the eyelid make-up in violet, blue, green, etc.
The end of this line probably contained Hp** ^ID = KoX rravrolovs Xldovs
iyXeKrovs of C, followed immediately after, or in the next line, by ]^S73S'7S71 = Kal rd pai,Kd
in C. On 'Aza'el in charge of ]''S7I322, according to a late Jewish Midrash, see below,
pp. 326 and 328.
After ra j8a^t/ca comes a long addition in S, a sort of chronicler's reflection, and a corrupted
translation of rd pueraXXa in E (see above).
4QEn'' 1 iii—En. 8:2-9:4 (Pis. VII, VIII)
"PXPNA ra^IM LA&IM ISIPD K-iB^LA*? iz^NN «^'?[X ••JA-IN
[ NAN
XOPAI]
•'tt?M PJ'^X "PX^E^AB? ]»-)X fpi^ FIPN[s7ix ''mi\
[ banm
\ '?3IP'*?V]IN^I&2*7 pi] T"?:"? V"I2; PN'RISI [iw "^m fpi[^ ni)p pbo] ix^p^ XY[-IX p win NSP]
"757 ivm wi-ip p '7X]H3[]n "7X3^ '7]XN!2n "7X3^0 [PNX PX*']
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