The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

En'ixxvii FIFTH COPY 235
-[laK ] 4-9
[ iiinnKi ]inTS7 inDDnxi ynia is?]!"-! snm "iaN[i] lo
[ ] 12-17
[ ]'[ ]
;pnp afa*? n^ainn [pnnnatt? nriD iiS7i N^PID ariDi] 20
fiay rr^rnxi ^DK^^D pDS"? n^aix pn pi 341]
margin
and I was shown from [afar trees in it, trees exceedingly numerous and
great], differing [the one from the other. And I saw there a tree which was
different from all, very great] and [beautiful and magnificent. . .]
[^. . . your father of old and] your mother of old, and they learnt [knowledge,
and their eyes were opened, and they understood] that they were
naked [. • .
33 3... 'tTri'el, one of] the Watchers. ^And he sh[owed me and wrote down
everything for me; also he wrote for me their names] according to the
resemblance to [their] fixed times. \^ ^And from thence I was transferred
to the North of the ends of the earth], and I was shown great wonders [. . .]
Texts for comparison: C and E.
Ll. 1-3 (En. 32: 3). Fragment e has not been positively identified, all the more so as the actual
text of En. 32: 3 leaves much to be desired, both in the Greek and in the Ethiopic. In any case
our small fragment cannot be placed in En. 33: i where the word 'different', TWO, occurs:
'and there I saw great beasts, different one from another*.
The Greek text of En. 32: 3 has, after KOL ^XOOV Trpos rov rrapaBiaov TTJ? SiKaioavvrjs
(= XD2?j? On^D 1**^ DD^riKl at the end of the preceding column), the following form: Kal
iSov puaKpodev TCJV hivhpojv TOVTOJV 8ev8pa TrXelova Kal pueydXa' Svo) p,€v €K€L picydXa a^ohpa KaXd
Kal evSo^a Kal pLcyaXonpeTTrj, KOI TO SevSpov TTJS povqG€a)s o^ iadiovaiv dyioi TOV Kapwov avrov
Kal iTTLGTavTai p6vrjGiv pLcydXrjv. Instead of Svco pL€v E read v6pi€va 'which grow'; added after
€/c€t 'and their scent is sweet'; omitted pLcyaXoTTpeirrj; and shortened the final phrase . . .
pbeydXrjv to 'whereof they eat and know great wisdom'. We should note first of all that Enoch is
not inside Paradise but l*'^, 'beside' (Paradise); he thus catches sight of the trees which grow
there at some distance, 'from afar'. Instead of puaKpoOev TOJV SevSpwv TOVTOJV (the demonstrative
pronoun is not at all justified here) we should read puaKpodev rd SevSpa iv avTw. After BivSpa
rrXelova {'vtry numerous trees', not 'more numerous') Kal p^eydXa there was—if our identification
of fragment e is correct—^the phrase 'different one from another', []T ]12 ]1] ^^W; cf.