The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

En'^Sii THIRD COPY 213
paradisum voluptatis ad tempus, ut in fine temporum, cum Elia convertat corda patrum in
filios'; (ibid. 1081, Additio): 'Henoch quasdam litteras invenit, et quosdam libros scripsit sub
quo Adam intelligitur mortuus.'
L. 20 (En. 106:15). CM keeps the original meaning of the text; E substitutes haguil 'destruction'
for opyq = KTll*!, adds 'all (the earth)' and 'the waters (of the flood)', and omits the
second earai (= perhaps 13X711*' rather than XIH^).
LI. 20-1 (En. 106: 16). KOL ToSc TO TraiSlov no doubt reflects the construction with the demonstrative
pronoun placed first (cf. i viii 30), Xa**^!? as against TO TraiSlov rovro = Xa*'^S7
]1 107: 2 (line 30). Cf. xn Xa''^lS7 in iQGenAp ii 2.
L. 21. rewrjOevy here and at 107: 2: frequent confusion of the passive participle with the
perfect passive Pe'il, which should normally be followed by a dative, here ]1D / with E.—
KaraX€iOriG€rai ('will be left on the earth' E) seems to me to be out of place here, perhaps in
anticipation of v. 18 (line 23). The addition found in E at the end of the verse, 'he will be saved,
he and his children', appears to me to be an accurate, though incomplete, reading of this passage,
first placed in the margin of a manuscript and then wrongly inserted.
LI. 21-2 (En. 106: 17b). [Kal] TTpavvi rrfv yfjv OLTTO rrjs ovarjs ev [avr]^ 6opds abridges quite
extensively the original formulation. Since we have here a new development, which describes
the situation after the flood, we would expect [rore] rather than [/cat]. Further, the transitive
npavvetrriv yfjv is not at all satisfactory; it is the earth, etc., which rests after a critical period,
e.g. [XS7]nX ni2H1 in En« I ii 16 (probably a more detailed text of En. 91: 10; see 91: 5 ff.
on the state of violence on the earth); 3111 ]XJ Tl^T X^IDI, 'and all (men) will rest from the
sword', in an unpublished Aramaic apocalypse from Qumran, 4Q246 i ii 4 (the epoch of wars
will last: « * « K'71D1
057 mj?'' IS). E drastically reshaped this phrase in terms of what
precedes it (v. 17) and drew on v. 15: 'and there will be a great chastisement on the earth'.
On the other hand, E has kept the parallel verb, omitted in CM: 'and (the earth) will be
purified of all (great, En^; cf. i vii 2, note) corruption'.
LI. 22-5 (En. 106:18). With CM keep the direct speech of Lamech, introduced by on = ;
E in the 3rd person.
LI. 22-3. The passage nX)2?. . . tJlB?p3 is translated in CM SiKalojs
Kal oaiov (OJGIOJV MS.)
Kd[XeGo]y avrov ro ovopua; it should not be corrected to 8. K. OGLWS, Kd[XeGo]y a. TO O.
(Nioey (Bonner). Our En*^ and also E make it clear that there is an omission by
in CM: Kd\XeGo]y (rohe TO iraihiov ro yevvrjdev Kal Note KoXeGov}; E reads '^sma zatawalda
homoeoteleuton
waldu
(better E^s waldikd) wfHu basMeq {sddiq Es^^) wasaw^^S simo noh, thus shortening, and
inverting the order of words, in the first part of this passage.—AiKaiois = t3Wp3 also in
line 30 (En. 107: 2).
The phrase 'and pious call this boy who is born' gives the first etymology of the name Noah,
based on the late Hebrew adjective ndh, or on the Aramaic nihy 'quietus, mitis, placidus, gratus,
bonus'. The second etymology, 'the rest, to rest', follows nZDB? in line 23. These two etymologies
are given also by Philo, according to whom Noah means 'rest' or 'just' {De AhrahamOy § 27, ed.
J. Gorez, Les oeuvres de Philon d'Alexandrie, 20 (1966), 34): os 'E^palwv puev rfj yXwrrrj KaXeirai
Nwe, rfj 8e *EXXrivwv ^^dvdnavGis^^ rj "8tVato?". The same notice occurs in Legum allegoriuy iii 37
(ed. C. Mondesert, Les osuvres . . . , 2 (1962), 212): eppirjveverai, yap Nd)€ dvdtravGLS rj SUaios*