The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

Enastr*'28 CORRESPONDING TO EN. 76-9 AND 82 295
and the image' of En. 79: 6, but the reference to retardation, [IjnXH (Haphel or Hophal
perfect), of the moon on the course of the sun and the stars suggests that this phrase of line 4
of our fragment belongs at 79: 5. Two initial letters of this line, damaged at the top, have long
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shafts. I restore ]p[n], rather than ^p[n] *to be strong'. The first verb means, among other
things, *to restore, to correct' (cf. Palmyrene mtqnn* = restitutor = iTravopOcjT-qsy CIS ii
3946 = Inv, iii 19, and CIS ii 3971), an unmistakable reference to the synchronism of the
lunar and solar years: retardation of 5 days during the half-year period (En. 79: 5), thus 10
days per year, and 30 days, an intercalary month, at the end of 3 lunar years.
Ll. 5-6 (En. 78: 17). L. 5. To the simple words *it appears . . . like a man' of the Ethiopic
text there corresponded in the original *. . . [in the night], this vision (sc. the appearance of the
moon) looks a little (lit. *in part', DSp ]Q) as (if it was) the image of a man'.—*And in the day
like the sky' E; add like (the sun in) the sky' ?
L. 6. ^^^1^*?3 n[ninj ]n^], *but only its Hght'; E similar. Note the defective form of
the last word, instead of ^Timn^S.
4QEnastr^ 28—En. 82: 9-13 (PL XXX)
This fragment, to judge by the quahty of the skin, belonged to a different
leaf from that of fragments 25 and 26.
nnac? pi(\v-
pn^'pn'? pn^t^in'? ]inns7a['?
ns7a]nx" iinmoa bob
x\7]ibb[wo^
TQ]b[i(\i ymi ][
[9. . . with regard] to their Zodiacal periods, their new moons, their (daily)
signs. ^^And [these are the names . . . and according to] their authority with
regard to all their stations. "Four [leaders . . . and for three hundred and
sixty-four days there are] chiefs of thousands [....] dividing the days [. . . .
i^And] these are the names [....]
To the Ethiopic evidence add the quotation of 82: 9 in CSCO 221 j Aeth, 41, p. 63 (222/42,
p. 56).
L. I (En. 82: 9). pn^'lS^a/: *in their festivals' E; on the probable meaning of
namely 'signs of the Zodiac', see the note to En^ i i 19 (there too on ]inmOD of our line 2),
above, pp. 187-8.—]in*'^n^: omitted in E; on this term see the note to En» i ii 2.
Ll. 1-2 (En. 82: 10). L. 2. ]\nmOD ]init3^B?D1: *and according to their power
and in their stations' E.