The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

En« I iv SEVENTH COPY 265
m*';
L. 18 (En. 93: i). To [HiT*], restored in line with wahabani of E, I add nmiC)^ or DDD
for both substantives see the title of the Epistle of Enoch to Semihazah in 4QEnGiants*:
Kt&ns nDD ym nnDa [... xmij^'K n xran xm"? ]2?nD (beiow, p. 314).-
At the beginning of the verse, instead of ''T ^1131 = wd*imdihrazi of E, I restore ''ID,
which fits better into the syntax of this passage: *and when he was transmitting his Epistle,
Enoch took up his discourse, saying'.—The expression n^DD DDI, lines i8 and 23 (93: i and
3), translated by *he began to speak from the books' in E, has already been encountered in
En. 1: 2 = En* i i 2: Tll^PllD DD3; see also p. 89.
Ll. 19-22 (En. 92: 2). IZDK in line 19 is the participle; *and said' E.
Ll. 19/20. The passage *and concerning the elect of the world, and concerning the plant of
equity (E^ justice, E^ justice and equity)' was worded differently in the Aramaic original,
which read approximately *[and concerning the elect of the world who had grown up (Ip^O
as in Dan. 7: 8, 20, or a synon)rm)] from the plant of truth [and of justice]'.
L. 20. ^illontay *these (things)' in E, before 'ib^lakimmu, *I will speak unto you', is probably
the result of the misreading of SH as XIH by the Greek translator.
Ll. 21-2. All three K^D are omitted in E.—^At line 21, ]''l&''lj?1 pn**!? = *the holy angels'
E; see En* i i 3 note.—^At line 22, E omits the first verb from 11331311X1 IT'lp.
Ll. 22-4 (En. 93: 3). The description of the first Week and of the beginning of the second
Week (lines 24-5) is more accurate in the Coptic fragment than in the Ethiopic text. E omits
'Enoch' after *!', replaces ''^i7 1571 with Vhile', and duplicates SDl&p (n^xiH^ion
Coptic)
by 'judgement and righteousness' (but in PO vi, 3, p. 430 [172], 14 only sidSq). For the expression
faithfully preserved in Coptic, see p. 82. The preposition
the life (of past kings, etc.)' is discussed on p. 216.
in its meaning 'during
Ll. 24-5 (En. 93: 4). 'And after me will arise the second Week (cjSSo/ia?)' En? and Coptic,
as against 'after me, in the second Week' in E (except E^^ which omits 'in'). The Weeks that
follow are introduced by the phrase 'and after that, will arise the nth Week'; see En« iv 15 and
the Coptic fragment for the 3rd and 5th Weeks, whilst E always has 'and after that, in the nth
Week'.
L. 25. The phrase HDS'' KOani X^lpB? HD ""1 is reworked in E: 'will arise great
wickedness, and deceit will have sprung up'. Note that the pronoun ''T is rewritten from ''T.
The scribe was thus modernizing the orthography of his model, which was fairly old, dating
approximately from around the year 100 B.C.
4QEn« 1 iv—En. 93: 9-10 +91:11-17 (PI. XXII)
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