The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

300 THE BOOK OF GIANTS
continents, as a rule adapted every word of the text—even the names of
months, of persons and of divinities, of countries, etc.,—^to the language, to
the mentality and to the geographical, social, and mythological horizons of
their future disciples. Thus, in the Iranian world, *Ohya and 'Ahya become
Skm and Nariman (s*m and nrym*n)\ for Sam-Krsdsp was, like 'Ohyd, one
of the immortals and a famous slayer of dragons.
'Ohy^, son of Semihazah, was frequently in contention with another
giant who was called Mahawai {m^hwyy nChwy in Middle Persian, nCVwy
in Sogdian; Henning, pp. 56, 57, 66) and was the son of Virogddd {tvrwgd^d
in Persian, wrwkd^d in Uigur). This last name signifies * Given by the lightning',
and Henning has ingeniously recognized here the name of the ninth
fallen angel, Baraq^ely ^XpHS in 4QEn (above, p. 153).^
These few elements, mainly onomastic, drawn from the Manichaean
Book of Giants and known essentially through the manuscripts discovered
in Turfan and in Chotsko, are amply suflSicient to identify correctly an
Aramaic fragment coming from Cave 6 of Qumran and published in 1962
by M. Baillet in DJD iii, p. 117, 6Q8 i. According to Cross this papyrus
manuscript dates from around the years 50-1 B.C. (p. 149, fig. 4, line 6).
My reading, made from the photograph PAM 41.736 and from that of
plate XXIV of DJD iii, differs in only a few letters from the decipherment
given by the first editor:
]°[
> naxi x^niK °[
] vacat nin ^os; ••ax "jxpia o [
na n^s7nib[x'?] ^ina ^T'[V3\ K'? [IS; ]b[ s
np]hD m'?'' |n wm
f nan nx n['7
'[. . ,]2 'Ohya and he said to Mahawai: . .] ^and (I?) do not tremble.
Who showed you all (that), tell [us (?) . . .". And Mahawai said: . .]
^Baraq'el, my father, was with me".
• Cf. Henning, BSOAS viii (1935-7), S^S, and Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenldndischen
Gesellschaft, 90 (1936), 4.