The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

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THE BOOK OF GIANTS
Mahawai goes off, holding in one hand the letter granting full powers on
behalf of the giants, and in the other, no doubt, the tablet with the description
of the dreams: [ . . . nnxni] Xn3J riDnX nnXD (iii 3).
The continuation of the text narrates the journey of the messenger and his
meeting with Enoch:
p3D i]mo ^mrn mDi I^'^is^sd
[ ] xm xnma pna?"? ^bm ibn s
]o •'ina 7\b naxi npS7n ^iin nT[n]i
[ n2x x]s7a nna"? mnn nD^pi xm"?
[ ]^fnn ]n xanx ^^7^02 "731 yb[r:i]b
]n]D^mi ]inn[... •'Jar p
[... ^i2n nax ]id ]nx2 ][i]rni&D ^la s7nS[2 ] 10
[ ipD]3 ]^ai& ]a n p[^^x f nxa]
. . he rose up into the air] ^like the whirlwinds, and he flew with the
help of his hands like [winged] eagle [. . .; he flew over] sthe cultivated lands
and crossed Solitude, the great desert, [...]. ^And he caught sight of Enoch
and he called to him and said to him: "An oracle [I have come to ask
you . . .] 7here. From you, a second time, [I] ask for the oracle, [. .. we shall
listen to] ^your words, all the nephilim of the earth also. If (God ?) is going
to take away [. . .] ^from the [days of their [. . .] and that theymay be
jgunished [. . . . . we] should like to know from you their explanation?^
[Thereupon Enoch spoke thus ...: "Two hundred tr]ees which have come
out (or come down, inn2)] from heaven, [these are the two hundred Watchers
..."].'
L. 5. On the (great) deserts which surround the oikoumene see above, p. 291, note to Enastr^
23, Hne 9.
L. II. The theme of *two hundred demons' recurs often in Manichaean literature. See
BSOAS
xi, pp. 68-9: two leaves in Sogdian, one of which contains a 'Discourse on the Nephilim-demons'
and the other an 'Explanation about the four angels and the two hundred demons';
pp. 70-1: The two hundred demons (CC dywt) came down'; p. 70 (in Middle Persian): *the
coming of the two hundred demons (dwysd dyw*n)'\ another passage is quoted above, p. 299.
We should point out in passing that this is the second time that Mahawai
goes to look for Enoch (line 7), who lived in a paradise situated in the extreme