The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

304 THE BOOK OF GIANTS
is thus a good chance of progressively improving the decipherment, and of
being better able to connect up the fragments. We count forty-two to fortyeight
letters per line. According to Cross this manuscript dates from around
the years 100-50 B.C. (p. 149, fig. 4, line 3).
The section of 4QEnGiants^ which interests us here begins towards the
end of line 3 of column ii:
*Then the two of them dreamed dreams ^and the sleep of their eyes fled
from them and [they arose . . .].' Awake, they come to their father: 'and
they came to [Semihazah, their father, and told him] their dreams' (line 5).
The father sends them into the assembly of the giants, their companions,
and of the nephilim. There, one of the two, 'Ahya without a doubt (see
below), recounts his dream in detail: .. in] my dream, I have seen during
this night' (Une 6).
Of the account of the dream there does not remain much at all in our
manuscript, and what does remain is not easy to read. However, it certainly
deals with a vision of a garden full of trees which symbolize men, and the
Watchers and the giants in particular:
xim piJ... [
"jDD pbi xnin x^a ... [
'[7. . .] gardeners and they were irrigating . . and] numerous shoots
sprang from their trunk . .] I watched until the sources had been closed
by [^0. . .] all the waters; and the fire burned in all [. . .].'
L. 7. * Gardeners', occurs again on an isolated fragment of 4QGiants^; likewise on
a fragment of papyrus, 6Q8 5: X**!!! |[ • • • ]• The gardeners, guardian angels, and bailiffs
of the world-garden, are matched by the shepherds in the Book of Dreams, En. 89: 59, etc.;
90: I, etc.