The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

En 5-
L. 24. For see En^ 1 xi 6.
LI. 24-30. My restorations are based on the text of C, except at line 27 (En. 14: 14), where
I add '*SJ3X
drawing on E; C om. Line 29 (w. 16/17) was longer in the original. At
the beginning of v. 18 (line 30) I supply the expression from line 27 (w. 14-15), which is
problematical there too.
4QEn^ 1 vii—En. 14: 18-20 and (?) 15: 11 (PI XIII)
margin
x^onD mnn ]iy\ ]pnn[D ''mDnn xTia mm \ni'73'7ii ^DIDTD]
x]fn Kh[T\ ]a mm xa^aa? ]»
[ ] 3-.7
'n[mni»
xnni] 29-30
[was like crystal-glass, and its wheels were like the disc of the shining sun,
and its sides] were cherubim. ^^[And from beneath the throne came forth]
streams of [fire, and I could not look. ^^Great Majesty sat upon this throne,
and His raiment was brighter than the sun and whiter than] much snow [. . .
15II. . . and the spiri]ts of [giants? . . .]
The placing of fragment k is uncertain.
Texts for comparison: C and E.
L. I (En. 14: 18). The image of the throne of God, the appearance of which is like ice {(Lav
(sic) KpvGToXXivov; perhaps read ws up> Kpvar, 'like frozen, icy water' or even o)sv(aXosy Kp.
'like glass in rock-crystal') certainly influenced the image in Rev. 4: 6: /cat ivconiov TOV Bpovov
(hs ddXaoaa vaXlvrj opioLa KpvaraXXcp, The author of Revelation is no doubt thinking of the
pavement in front of the throne, a pavement in transparent ice like that in the antechamber of
the throne-room in En. 14: 10 (our line 24 of column vi). A number of other elements common
to the Book of Revelation and to En. make it clear that the Christian writer had first-hand
knowledge of the Book of Enoch, probably the Greek translation of it; cf. En. 22: 12 and
Rev. 6: 9-10; En. 86: i and Rev. 9: i and 11 and 8: 10; En. 91: 16 and Rev. 21: i. For a similar
influence of the description of the New Jerusalem on the Book of Revelation, see DJD iii,
p. 186. With the description of the wheels of the throne cf. that found in Dan. 7:9; /cat rpoxos