The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

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the other four columns, on the other hand, retain extensive parts of the
Aramaic text, which differs considerably from the Ethiopic. Codicological
data:
Leaf Column Letters Width Sections of Text Sigla of Fragments
per col. of the the text preserved fragments on plates
col.
I
blank
i En. 91: I-? 4QEn» I i 18 4QEn« I a
ii 39 13 cm ?-92: 3 En. 91: 10+ ii 13-26 a
18-19 and
92: 1-2
2 iii 40 14 92: 3-93: 4 92: 5-93: 4 iii 15-25 b, c
iv 37 12-5 93: 4-10 + 93: 9-10+ iv 11-26 c,d
91: 11-17 91: 11-17
V 40 13 91: 17+? + 93: 11-94:2 V 14-26 Cy e
93: 11-94:2
Number of lines per column, twenty-five or twenty-six. Lower margin,
approximately i-a cm; space between columns, 2 cm to o cm. Restored height
of the scroll, 19 cm. A minute fragment of En^, with traces of three letters,
is not placed.
The Ethiopic text of this last part of the Enochic Pentateuch is much
altered in comparison with the original Aramaic text. Our manuscript has
definitively confirmed the good judgement of the editors of the Ethiopic
text who moved forward the description of the last three Weeks (eighth,
ninth, and tenth) of the Apocalypse of Weeks (En. 91: 12-17) to follow the
description of the first seven Weeks (En. 93: 3-10). In actual fact the passage
began in 91: 11, but this verse was shorter in the Aramaic than in the Ethiopic.
Besides, the beginning of the Epistle of Enoch, En. 91: i-io, was much
fuller in the original, as was the Aramaic text corresponding to 92: 3-5.
Finally, the section 93: 11-14 was preceded by an analogous text, three
times as long as the Ethiopic passage.
The calculations made by C. Bonner showed that the beginning of the
^ETTLGToXr] 'Eva>x in the Chester Beatty-Michigan papyrus (CM) was also
longer in this Greek version than in the Ethiopic translation. On two small
Greek fragments of CM which belong probably to the beginning of the
Epistle of Enoch see notes to col. i and to ii 22-3. Unfortunately there are
no overlaps between our En^, ending at En. 94: 2, and the main portion of
CM, which covers En. 97: 6-107: 3.