The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

262 THE BOOKS OF ENOCH En* i ii
In the Enochic writings Enoch may be called XT3!&p HDD, *the scribe of righteousness', or
N12?*1D nSO,
*the scribe of distinction'; see the note to En« 2 2. The first epithet underHnes
his moral rectitude (in line with 'Enoch, the righteous man' of En. i: 2), whilst the second
one qualifies him as a professional, 'distinguished', copyist who writes 'distinctly, clearly', and
perhaps, at the same time, as a redactor of laws which have the force of judges' 'decisions'.
Whereas the former expression could be simply rendered by 'Evwx ypafifiarcvs rijs SiKaio-
GvvTjs (or TTJs dXrjdelas En. 15: i), the latter was paraphrased by the Greek translator, as we
can see from the E version of En. 92: i (beginning) and from the CM fragment. CM, judging
by the corresponding E text, probably had this form: 'Evojx ypalfjifiarevs
TWV aa€crTdT(ov]
epycovy 'Enoch, the scribe of very clear (trustworthy) deeds'. An Aramaic adverbial derivative
of the root pr^y namely U^^D^P in Esd. 4: 18, was translated by o-a^cD? in a Greek recension of
the Old Testament. The Ethiopic translator confused the adjective aa^€aTdTwv
with GoojTdTwv
and rendered it by 'of all... wisdom'. Then he took epya in an Old Testament sense as meaning
'wondrous deeds'; see En. 36: 4 td'dmrdta {te^imirta in E