The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

En« I i SEVENTH COPY 259
Sometimes the Incarnation of Jesus Christ is put in the eighth, and not in
the sixth. Week: PO i, i, p. 55; CSCO 221 j Aeth. 41, pp. 14, 34, 53 (222/42,
pp. 12, 31, 47).
4QEns 1 i (PI. XXI)
[ ] 19-28
This column, after a blank fly-leaf, contained the beginning of the manuscript: some early
verses of chapter 91, in a more elaborate form than that of the Ethiopic version.
C. Bonner in his edition of The Homily on the Passion by Melito, bishop of Sardis and some
fragments of the Apocryphal Ezekiel (Studies and Documents, xii), 1940, makes the following
remark on fr. 3 of pseudo-Ezekiel: *if the verso writing was the end of its selection, the writing
on the recto belonged to a selection which followed it, probably the earlier part of the last
chapters of Enoch*. On p. 187 he transcribes the recto of this fragment (pap. Ch. B. no. 185):
]l vvv VfJL . [
Jrai aTTO rov y[
[JioJxOrjpajv KaL[
I have been able to check this reading from a photograph kindly sent to me by the Chester
Beatty Library in Dublin. At the end of line i read epsilon. The verbal ending -rat, line 2
stands probably for -re of the imperative, the second person plural. The context of these few
words can be found in En. 91: 3-4, in a different recension of the Greek version from that of
the Ethiopic Enoch. I tentatively suggest the following partial restoration:
[ ] vacat [ ]
" Ka]l vvv VfJi€[lv]
[dyaTTrjToi Xeyw. ayaTraJrat oltto tov y[vv ?]
H'OJxOripcbv Kal [ovk ?]
K ]
L. I. A vacat at the end of the line before a new section; cf. pp. '15', 5; *i6*, 24 of CM.
Ll. 2/3. Restore perhaps *[For I exhort you], and now to you, [beloved, I say]'; wa^enagerkimufdqurdn
{Jdqurdneya, my beloved, E^), *and I say unto you, beloved' E; cf. En. 94: i.
Ll. 3-4. Restore perhaps *[Lov]e from n[ow on uprightness, and hate works of wi]cked ones
and [do not]', ^afdqirwd lar^ti'e wabdti horu, *love uprightness and walk therein' E. I suppose
an omission before *and walk'.