The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

En* 2 and 3 FIFTH COPY 237
[
]x2n sn DT[S 3
] 20 ^^DB? mn DT na ^[12
] ^[D ]na ]n3[s7n]» iiri[
Fragment z
. . —and all [. . . . the vision . . .] was shown to Enoch the scribe
[of distinction • • . 3. . . children of] Adam. Behold, the Great One [...]•
This fragment would belong to the initial part of the Book of Giants.
L. 2. nn[nX or n''T[nnN with (K)mTn preceding it, rather than T\\m or nn[p.—
KI&*1D TDD is a standing epithet of Enoch in the Book of Giants (see p. 262) as against
'scribe of righteousness, of truth' in the Book of Watchers: En. 12: 4 {'Evwxy 6 (MS. Aivcox ot)
ypafifjuarevs T^S StKeoavvTjs) and 15: I {ypafifiarevs Trjg oXrjOeLas).
L. 3. The expression KST KH seems to imitate Tl21 Tl^'^lp pQT^ in En» i i 5 (En. i: 3),
the phrase which begins a descriptive text after a long title.—^The God's epithet 'the Great
One* occurs in En. 14: 2 (S3T En^ i vi 11, o pucyas C, 'abiy E), in En. 103:4 (ATRO irpoGorrov rov
pL€ydXov C, ^imqidma ga§a 'abiy E), in En. 104: i (ivwrnov rrjg Soirjs rov pLcydXov C, baqidma
sibhatihu la'abiy E twice, the second time in a parallel phrase omitted in C by homoeoteleuton).
Fragment 3 i
Lines 19-21 seem to overlap a fragment of 4QEnGiants«:
]2 xs;nx[3] mp[n*7
]a nn ftnyi i^^T\m mn[
]xs7iK
'7iaao[
The beginning of the second line of this fragment seems to be the same as the end of En®
3 i 20, except for a grammatical variant: *]DnB?D instead of *^*'D2?. The phrase on the shedding
of blood upon the earth is to be found also in En. 9: i (En* i iv 7), and cf. En. 9: 9.
Our fragment En« 3 i would have about thirty-three letters per line, and EnGiants® about
forty-seven.
Tentative translation of the combined text of both fragments
[... To] inspect upon the earth all the children of Adam on account of the
wickedness {of the Giantsy which they have done upon the earth]y for upon it