The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

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INTRODUCTION
None the less, I do not think that these are fragments of a close translation of
the Book of Watchers grouped with the 'Book of Noah' fragment of En.
106-7; the parallel passages differ too much.^ Neither is it possible to vouch
for the exact equivalence between the Hebrew texts of horoscopes and physiognomical
predictions contained in 4QI862 and the horoscope of Noah
(followed by other horoscopes ?) in the Aramaic 'Book of Noah' (see above,
P- 56).
2. It is not certain that there ever existed any other literary compositions
attributed to Enoch beyond the five which are the subject of this study. A fine
fragment from Cave 4 of Qumran (4Q246) retains one and a half columns
of a small scroll of nine lines. It recounts succinctly, in Aramaic, the vicissitudes
of Seleucid domination and passes on to an apocalyptic section with
the phrase: Di7 Dip** 'until the People of God rise' (ii 4). Now, at i i
we find the passage K^'DHD Ulp ^D3 m!2? ''ni^[S7, followed by a direct
address to God, yiW), 'and your years' (line 2), nnS 'you' (line 3), etc.
At the beginning of the phrase quoted we must understand something
like: '[and the terror] settled on him' (cf. Dan. 10: 7). The expression which
follows, 'he fell before the throne', reminds us of En. 14: 24: 'And I, until
this moment, I was cast down upon my face, trembling ...' (before the divine
throne in the heavenly palace, 14: 18-20).^ It is not necessarily Enoch, however,
that the author of this Aramaic apocalypse makes approach the throne
of God; it may be another visionary of sacred history, such as Levi, Moses,
Elias, or Daniel, or even an angel.^
There are the following mentions of Enoch in Qumran manuscripts so
far published:
A long discourse of Enoch on the birth of Noah in iQGenAp (see above,
PP- 55-6).
A description of literary activity by Enoch in a Hebrew fragment related
to the book of Jubilees (quoted above, p. 12).
' For the relation of this manuscript, of ^ Cf. the description of the throne in 4QEniQGenAp,
and of En. 106^ to the *Book of Giants^; this is to be distinguished from the
Noah', see above, pp. 55-6. thrones of the Last Judgement, Dan. 7: 9-10
* J. M. Allegro, DJD v, pp. 88-91 and and in 4QEnGiants^, below, p. 305.
pi. XXXI; cf. J. Strugnell, Revue de Qumran, * There is in fact a document of 4Q entitled
1970, pp. 274-6 and, for the bibliography, *Book of the Words of Michael' (cf. below,
J. A. Fitzmyer, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, p. 91).
31 (1969), 70-1.