The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

334 THE BOOK OF GIANTS
'/ry' which are found in the Manichaean Kawan (above, p. 299). We have
examined above (pp. 303-9) the dream of the second son, 'Ahya, about
the destruction of the paradisiac garden by the angels, with the exception
of '[one tree with] its three roots' (6Q8 2), or 'one tree with three branches'
according to the midrash of Semhazai.
The dream of 'Ohyah, the first son of this fallen archangel, about the
tablet of stone covered with writing, fallen on to the earth and wiped out by
an angel 'apart from four words', as our midrash recounts it, allows us to
correct a passage of the Manichaean text and to join to it an Aramaic fragment
from Qumran. Fragment j of the Middle Persian Kawan speaks first
of Sam (= 'Ohya) and of his brother (above, p. 303); then, on the second
page, it describes a first dream—dreamt no doubt by the same 'Ohya—
and finally it recounts the second dream, that of Nariman (= 'Ahya) about
the 'garden full of trees in rows' (Henning, BSOAS xi (1943-6), 57 and 60).
What remains of the first dream is translated by Henning as follows:
'. . . over Taxtag. To the angels . . . from heaven. Taxtag to . . . Taxtag
threw {or was thrown) into the water. Finally (?)... in his sleep Taxtag
saw three signs (one portending . . .), one woe and flight, and one . . .
annihilation.'
In note 7 the editor notes that Hxtg might be appellative = "a board".
This would fit in three of the passages, but hardly in the fourth.' In the light
of the midrash of Semhazai txtg must necessarily be translated by 'board,
tablet', and the phrase 'in his sleep Taxtag saw three signs' should be corrected
to something like 'and in his sleep ('Ohya) saw a tablet with three
signs'. The Manichaean text thus talks first of a tablet which the angels
had [obliterated] and thrown into the water, then of another( ?) tablet containing
three signs of the disasters to come, no doubt drawing on the mene
teqel fares of the Book of Daniel.
A small fragment from Qumran, dating from the Herodian era, 2Q26 i,
certainly seems to belong to the description of the same dream {DJD iii,
pp. 90-1 and pi. XVII). I correct and add a little to the transcription of the
first editor, M. Baillet:
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] xn[i^] ]a i'?i5 p"?
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