The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

LATER HISTORY 337
subject of the Watchers'; in actual fact it comes from the Book of Giants,
as we have suggested above (p. 319). The ban (XriDinX in the magic cups)
of the mountain, where the two hundred angels are bound to one another
by oath (lainX 4QEn* i iii 5 = En. 6: 6), is followed in the Syncellus
passage by the curse of the sons of men (and/or the sons of the Watchers):
Kal vvv iyo) Aeyco vfitv viols dvOpconcoVy etc. (above, p. 318). It is obvious that
it is Enoch who delivers this curse, just as he must have delivered the first
curse on Mount Hermon. A quite explicit reference to this second part of
the quotation from Syncellus seems to occur in another Judaeo-Babylonian
magical text, namely in Montgomery 4, 3 which I read and translate: Din
•'Krn ''inx ^nnx n*'2 ITONT xnio^xa p"? Knox, 'Again, i am going to
bind you with the oath with which the House of Enoch bound his evil
brothers.'^ Note the orthography '^linx, with the prothetic Aleph, which
recalls the Arabic 'Uhnuh. The expression 'House of Enoch' obviously
means 'School of Enoch'. Thus the antediluvian sage was pictured surrounded
by his disciples just like a learned rabbi in a Judaeo-Babylonian
academy. In the incantation texts there occurs several times a rabbi-magician
called X*'mD 12 ysnn** now, in 8, 11 'the seal of the House of Yoshua
bar Perahyah' is invoked, X^'mD 12 Sl&in'' n^'DT Xnj?rS7D1, this phrase being
parallel to K^'OX X^mS p ^I&inn XnprS731 in 17, 12. The 'wicked brothers'
of Enoch are not members of his family but, in the wider meaning of the
word, all his contemporaries, the sons of men and the sons of the Watchers,
the sinning generation given up to destruction by the waters of the flood.
This interpretation is confirmed by Montgomery 19, 17 where the invocation
^12n n^2 nprS72 n^OX nm, 'Again, bound by the seal of the House of
Enoch', is followed immediately by the expression X3T X^13?3D ]*'a*'nni,
XnS7TT 'and sealed by the great flood of terror'.^
Similarly the sentence which comes shortly after the reference to the House
of Enoch in Montgomery 4, 3 leads us back to the context of the Enochic
writings (lines 4-5): 7]^20 nonXT XniD[^X3 pD^"?!?] XllDX nm
is;i xim (xm ed.) nn xar is; iwi'ja {]^i&''''i'?a} lov ]nni r3DD
* Loc. cit., pp. 133-7 and pi. V; Rossell, 3 Loc. cit., pp. 195-200 and pi. XX; Rossell,
PP-83-4, no. 8 (Montgomery reads n**!''TONT pp. 109-12 no. 29 (Montgomery reads plH,
and translates *with which Enoch was charmed but on p. 135 he writes Tor Enoch in incantaby
his wicked brothers').
tions, cf. 19: 17'; in the second sentence he
2 Montgomery 8, 6 and 8 (= Rossell 24); reads ilTWH K^DM and translates in part
9, 2; 17, 8 and 10. On this historical person, *by the great... of Zeus*).
Montgomery, pp. 226-8.
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