The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

EnGiants* ii, 12, 13 FIRST COPY 317
Fr. 9. . .] and all [. . .] \ . . -s before the splendour of [Thy] glo[ry . . .]
3[of] Thy [glo]ry, since [Thou] understandest all mysteries [.. .y and nothing
is stronger than Thou [. . .]^ before Thee. And now, the H[oly Ones of
heaven( ?)...] ^Thy kingship of glory unto [everlasting] y[ears . . .]
Fr. 10. i[. . . And] now, my Lord [. . .] ^Thou hast multiplied and [. . .]
3Thou dost wish and [. . .]
These two fragments belong to a prayer of Enoch; cf. similar prayers at En. 9: 4-11 and
En. 84: 2-6; also in the Christian Book of Parables, En. 63: 2-4.
Fr. 9. 1. 3. At the beginning read *]*1[p*'] or ^^[^^]. On the omniscience of God see
En. 8:5, 11; 84: 3.
L. 4. Cf. En. 83: 3: *and there is no work which Thou findest difficult (and Thou hast made
everything firm, E«); there is not one of them'. The term IDS means 'thing' as in Syriac and
in Palmyrene; see fr. 8, line 13.
L. 5. Cf. En. 84: 4 and 5.
L. 6. Cf. 84: 2.
Fr. 10.1. I. Read [^]kl'a or na. Cf. En 84: 6.
nb]if nob •'D^K [nb n]
]mna^[ ]
4QEnGiants-11,12, 13 (PI. XXXII)
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Fr. II ii. i[. . .] ^and the dew and the hoar-frost. . .
Fr. 13. ^[and prostra]ted themselves before [Enoch(?)...] 2[The]n he said
to him (or: to them) "[... 3pea]ce will [not] be to you [. . .] ..] in order to
be [. . .].
Fr. II ii should perhaps be placed below fr. 8, in other words ii i = 7 ii, and 8+11 ii = 7 iii.
Fr. 13, line i. Cf. fr. 4, line 6.
L. 3. Enoch speaks to Semihazah; cf. En. 13: i, where Enoch says to 'A^a'el, the second
chief of the Watchers: 'there will be no peace at all for you.'
LATER HISTORY
The dew and the hoar-frost (fr. 11 ii 2) are mentioned in En. 34: 2 and
76: 12 but the actual combination, 'the dew and the hoar-frost', recurs only
in a quotation from George Syncellus. Here is his wording which I have