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The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

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256 THE BOOKS OF ENOCH<br />

author as composed the rest <strong>of</strong> the Epistle, towards the end <strong>of</strong> the second<br />

century or at the beginning <strong>of</strong> the first century B.C.<br />

A small fragment from <strong>Cave</strong> 4 at <strong>Qumran</strong> seems to belong to a kind <strong>of</strong><br />

commentary to the Apocalypse <strong>of</strong> Weeks in the Epistle <strong>of</strong> <strong>Enoch</strong>. Here is<br />

the transcription and some notes to this isolated fragment (dating from the<br />

beginning <strong>of</strong> the Herodian period), which in my edition will be designated<br />

4Q247:<br />

] PKNRP<br />

] miiT ^'^a n ^ h s<br />

XY)I D^^nD [^]'?a [<br />

]KMn[<br />

M<br />

L. 2.1 restore K\T mnxai in line with "Tan SlStt? Dip'' TllT)2 ]ai in 4QEn8 i iv<br />

15 (En 91: 12).<br />

L. 3. Date <strong>of</strong> the construction <strong>of</strong> the temple <strong>of</strong> Solomon according to the text <strong>of</strong> i Kings 6: i:<br />

7]W2 ansa y^nxa "pHim nxs"? NW nixa smxi NW ••'iiat&a •'n^'i<br />

MN*'^ man ]T^ ^xntt?^ na^u? ^^a^... ms'^ann; cf. En. 93:7. <strong>The</strong> second<br />

part <strong>of</strong> line 2, and line 3 <strong>of</strong> our fragment was worded approximately as follows: ailH<br />

ma]i^i& mxa ymxp ••'aiaiz? D^IB? ansa ^nxa 'jKna?'' •'32 nxsa IDIO DS71<br />

n"'2n (rather than n32^) n32 '?i

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