The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

En8 I iv SEVENTH COPY 267
wicked, and they shall be delivered into their hands. ^3And with its end they
shall acquire riches in righteousness, and there shall be built the royal
Temple of the Great One in His glorious splendour, for all generations
forever. ^^And thereafter the ninth Week, and righteousness [and right]
judgement will be revealed [in it] for all the children of the whole earth;
and all the workers [of impiety] shall entirely pass away from the whole
earth, and they will be cast into the [eternal] Pit, [and] all [men shall see]
the right, eternal way. ^^And thereafter [the tenth Week], in the seventh part
[of which] an eternal Judgement and the (fixed) time of the Great Judgement
[shall be executed in vengeance, in the midst of the Holy Ones]. ^^And the
first heaven in it (end of the tenth Week) shall pass away, and [a new] heaven
[shall appear, and all the powers] of heaven shall rise for all eternity [with
sevenfold] brightness. [^^And after this] there will be many weeks [to
whose] number there shall be no end [forever, in which] they shall work
[good and] righteousness [. . .]
The placing of the small fragment d on lines 18-19, IT nifl*n/*7, seems to me to be beyond
doubt; one can see here the lower tip of the final Nun of lllf?** in line 17 encroaching on
the Zain.
Only E to be compared. En. 91: 12-13, 15-17 is quoted in CSCO
4 iii). See also PO vi, 3, pp. 432-3 [174-5]-
221 j Aeth. 41 (cf. En«
Ll. 12-13 (En. 93: 10). The expression HDIO DS71, at line 12, is restored in accordance with
line 17 (En. 91: 13).—The elect just', hiruydn sddiqdriy in E (better 'the elect of justice',
hiruydna
sidiq, in the manuscripts gdylo^a fi) shortens the original phrase 'the elect to be
witnesses of justice'. The Ethiopic version thus lost the important theological idea of the
testimony of the just at the end of time, which was to become so essential in the writings of
the New Testament.
L. I3.S7^a^ nSDn: E kept only 'the knowledge', tSmh^rit {cf. above note on the reading
^^) and added 'of all his creation (E^*^ possession)'.
Ll. 14-26. The description of the three last Weeks (En. 91: 12-17) followed in the original
the description of the seven first Weeks (93: 3-10), a sequence which was generally recognized
by editors of the Ethiopic Enoch. Dillmann, however, was mistaken in suggesting that En.
93: 11-14 followed immediately on v. 10 of the same chapter; see b.elow, En« i v I4ff. The end
of the description of the seventh Week, line 14 of our column, calls to mind certain phrases of
91: 5, 7, 8, and 11.
L. 14 (En. 91: 11). 'And they (sc. the elect) will be rooting out the foundations of violence';
E in the passive, 'and after that the roots of injustice will be cut'. Note that 'injustice' corresponds
well to X^1S7 in the uncorrected text of Ens (note on the reading