The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

i8a THE BOOKS OF ENOCH
fragment can be assigned to a column of the original scroll and approximately
to the lines it occupied within the column. This is scarcely possible, in the
present state of our knowledge of the Aramaic Enoch, for the fourth and
fifth parts of the Ethiopic version (the Book of Dreams and the Epistle of
Enoch). Here is the codicological table for the scroll of 4Q En^:
Leaf Col. Letters
per line
Width
of col.
Sections of
text
Text Sigla of Fragments
preserved fragments on plates
I i 47 9-5 cm En. i: 1-5: I En. i: 9-5: I 4QEn*^ i i 15-30 4QEn'^ 1 a,b,c
ii 54 II 5: 1-7: I 6:7 ii 26-9
[iii-iv]
[7: i-io:
13]
2 V 54 II 10: 13- 10: 13-19; V 1-9, 19
13:6 12: 3
vi 65 13 13: 6-14: 13: 6-14: vi 1-29
18 16
vii 66 13 14: 18- 14: 18-20; vii 1-2, k, /, m
15: 12 15: ii(?) 28
viii 55 II 16: I- 18: 8-12 viii 29- tn
18: 12 30
3 [ix-xi] [18: 12-
25:7]
4 xii 53 II 25: 7- 30: I- xii 23-30 n
32: I 32: I
xiii 52 32: I- 35: I- xiii 23- n
36:4 36:4 30
[xiv] [36:4+
vacat ?]
..
55 II • •
4QEnGiants»
2 and 3: see
4QEnGiants»
49 and 10
4 I-II
55 II 103: 15- 89: 104: 31-7 13- 5 i20-9
106: 4 106: 2
5
55 II 106: 4- 106: 13- ii 17-30
107: 2 107: 2
[107: 3 +
vacat]
Each column of En^ comprised thirty lines of the text. Top margin 17 cm;
bottom margin 2*4 cm; intercolumnar margin 1-2 cm. Height of written
columns 20 cm; height of the scroll 24 cm. Length of the fourteen columns
of the first part of the work 175 cm, plus a fly-leaf left blank at the beginning
of the scroll. If the original text of the Book of Dreams and the Epistle of
Enoch did not much exceed the length of the text translated into Greek and
into Ethiopic, the approximate length of the scroll of 4QEn^ was probably
4^ m.