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The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

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40 INTRODUCTION<br />

down (the star Helel <strong>of</strong> Isa. 14: 12-15, the king <strong>of</strong> Tyre <strong>of</strong> Ezek. 28: 16-18).<br />

None the less, the needs <strong>of</strong> a cartographer and an apologist who are attempting<br />

to put into order conflicting traditions on the abodes <strong>of</strong> the gods, <strong>of</strong> the<br />

FIG. 5. <strong>The</strong> map <strong>of</strong> the world <strong>of</strong> <strong>Enoch</strong> 1-36<br />

blessed, and <strong>of</strong> the damned, places scattered from the East, across the North,<br />

and as far as the West, will produce a mythical (and real) geography like that<br />

drawn in Fig. 5.<br />

When this map <strong>of</strong> the world is compared with that in Fig. 3, it can easily<br />

be seen that the bipartite division <strong>of</strong> the 'World' beyond this world (the<br />

circular Ocean—seven regions and Paradise) shown in the maps <strong>of</strong> the

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