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The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

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THE GREEK VERSION 71<br />

blank leaf, there follows the Apocalypse <strong>of</strong> Peter (pp. 13-19; leaves bound<br />

upside down) and one page left blank. Pp. 21-66 contain two fragmentary<br />

manuscripts <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Enoch</strong>ic Book <strong>of</strong> Watchers, while a leaf <strong>of</strong> parchment<br />

stuck on the inner board <strong>of</strong> the binding gives part <strong>of</strong> the Acts <strong>of</strong> St. Julian.<br />

<strong>The</strong> text <strong>of</strong> <strong>Enoch</strong> was copied by two scribes, the first on pp. 21-50 (21 lines<br />

per page) and the second, who was more skilful, on pp. 51-66 (28 lines per<br />

page); the change takes place at En. 14: 22, €Gr7]Ka{v) / iva>7nov. <strong>The</strong> binding<br />

<strong>of</strong> this volume <strong>of</strong> miscellanea is certainly later than the copy <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Enoch</strong>ic<br />

text which was at first separate from it and circulating independently <strong>of</strong> the<br />

New Testament apocrypha.<br />

<strong>The</strong> two different manuscripts <strong>of</strong> the Book <strong>of</strong> Watchers (En. 1-36) <strong>of</strong>fered<br />

by the Cairo codex are both mutilated. <strong>The</strong> first (our siglum C) begins at<br />

p. 21 with the last words <strong>of</strong> En. 19:3, avOpcoirov o (not

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