The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

3o8 THE BOOK OF GIANTS
'[3... I have shown myself more] powerful. And by the might of my sturdy
arm and by the strength of my power,^ [I had attacked] all flesh and I have
made war with them. But [I] not 5[. . . and] I do not find any support( ?) to
strengthen (me), for my accusers ^[. . .] they dwell in [heaven]s and they
live in the holy abodes, and [I ^will] not [win my cause( ?)], for they are more
powerful than I." ^[Thereupon . . .] the roaring of the wild beasts came
and the multitude of the wild animals began to cry out . .]. And 'Ohyah
spoke to him thus: "My dream has overwhelmed( ?) [me]^^ ^ ^ and the s]leep
of my eyes [has fled], when I have seen a [vi]sion. To be sure, I know that
[...].'
And here is a second fragment of 4QGiantsS which must come from the
beginning of the scroll:
jraoK ][
b]^o I'pKi n'pix [
]na T b}3^ nanfi[
] vacat [
] ivb^Qi nina[
'[...] ^they defiled themselves [. . .] ^the giants and the nephilim and
[. . .] 3they begat. And if all [...] ^in his blood( ?) and according to the power
[. . . 5. . . the giant]s that it did not suffice them and [their children.. .]^ they
demanded much to eat [. . .]7 the nephilim smote it {sc. the earth)(?) [. . .].'
We find again here the subjects well known from En. 7: 1-5 (En* i iii
13-21 and En^ i ii 18-25); 9- 8-9; 15: 4 and 8-11; 106: 14 and 17 (En^ 5
ii 18-19 and 21-2). The theme of the subjugation of men by the demons
was developed more picturesquely in the Manichaean Book of Giants, to
judge by fragment / of the Middle Persian Kawdn (Henning, pp. 58 and 62):
{page i) '. . . many . . . were killed, four hundred thousand Righteous . . .
with fire, naphtha, and brimstone . . . And the angels moved out of sight of
Enoch. Electae et auditrices . . . and ravished them. They chose beautiful
[women], and demanded them in marriage. Sordid . . .