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The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

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2i6 THE BOOKS OF ENOCH En« s ii<br />

the <strong>Enoch</strong>ic Pentateuch, or rather from the Book <strong>of</strong> Noah, the source <strong>of</strong> En. io6-^. If one admits<br />

Rokeah's dating <strong>of</strong> this Onomasticon, one has a terminus ante quem for the Book <strong>of</strong> Noah,<br />

which corroborates the date <strong>of</strong> its composition proposed above, p. 56.<br />

L. 23. [KaTa]At/x/xa in CM (*a remainder' in E) translates the substantive (X)n*'2 or even<br />

nil (Hebrew).—A4>' (e]p rwv avvreXlwy i[Trl rrjs yfjs] ed. (alternatively [GvpLTraGw]vy in the<br />

note); but the second lacuna is longer than Bonner thinks and I supply [rwv d8t/cta>]v, whilst<br />

the damaged word is better read as Gvvr€Xgy[ji€[vwv]y all <strong>of</strong> which is fairly close to the Ethiopic<br />

text: 'and on account <strong>of</strong> all the injustice which will be consummated on the earth in his<br />

days'.—ASiKlai (= in the plural?) was linked directly in the original with rrjs yrjsy<br />

because there is no place further on for X^nX ^"S, Instead <strong>of</strong> XSIX ^VVfl p one could<br />

just as well restore KS7nX ^12 ]», which is closely parallel to (or 121S7) p<br />

K'^Dn ^1D.—Kin*? in En

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