The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

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Just as with the scroll of En% it is possible with a fair degree of certainty
to assign the fragments belonging to the Book of Watchers (En. 1-36) to
their original columns and lines:
Column Letters Width Sections of Text Sigla of Fragments
per col. of col. text preserved fragments on plates
[i-xix]
XX En. 18: is(?) 4QEn« IXX 1-2 4QEn« I a
xxi En. 21: 2-22: 3 21: 2-4 xxi 1-4 b
xxii 34 9 cm 22: 3-13 22: 3-7 xxii 1-7 b
[xxiii-xxv] 22: 13-27:5
xxvi 35 9 28: 1-32: 3 28: 3-29: 2;
31: 2-32: 3
xxvii 40 9-5 32: 3-34: I 32: 3. 6;
33: 3-34: I
[xxviii] 34: 1-36:4
xxvi 3-6,
14-21
xxvii 1-3,
lO-II,
18-21
Column xxviii, not completely filled with text, was perhaps located on
the same sheet as fragments 2 and 3 i, these latter belonging to a different
Enochic writing, probably the Book of Giants.
Of the Book of Dreams there remain some fairly important fragments,
which are placed in three consecutive columns:
1
ii
39
41
32
9-5 cm
9-5
En. 86: 6-89: 6
89: 7-16
89: 16-30
En. 88: 3-89: 6
89: 7-16
89: 26-30
4QEn® 4 i 10-21
ii 1-5,
10-21
iii 13-21
4QEn« 4 a, 6
a, by Cy
d
Number of lines per column, 21. Upper margin i, 2 cm; lower margin
I, 5 cm; space between columns i, 2 cm.
The fragments of En^ that can be identified with certainty belong to the
Book of Watchers and the Book of Dreams. The former, however, was
probably followed by the Book of Giants; see notes to fragments En* 2 and 3.
Moreover, we may suppose that the Epistle of Enoch was present at the end
of the original scroll of En®, just as in the case of En*". Given that the date
of En* was the first half of the first century B.C., we have thus an additional
proof of the early composition of the Enoch Pentateuch.