The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

72 INTRODUCTION
of the Ethiopic Enoch. Moreover, the Ethiopic translation was made from
a Greek model which was relatively close to texts C and C'.^
Some extensive extracts from the Book of Watchers are quoted in the
Chronography of George Syncellus, written at the beginning of the ninth
century. Syncellus would appear to have borrowed them from the chronicle
of the Alexandrian monk Panodorus, through the medium of the chronicle of
Annianus, both dating from the beginning of the fifth century.^ The only
manuscript known until recently which preserves these quotations was the
Paris Bibl. Nat. grec 1711 (A.D. lozi).^ On p. 7 of this manuscript, after
the title e/c rod TrpcjTov j8cj8A/ou 'Eva>x' Trepl T&V iyprjyopcDV (line 23), COmes
the text of En. 6: 1-9: 4 (pp. 7, 24-8, 26); there follows the phrase which
summarizes En. 10: 4-12 (p. 8, 26-7), and the subscription ravra fikv 6 'Evojx
jxapTvpet (line 28). On p. 15, after the title c/c rov Xoyov 'Evcox^ ra AotTra, irepi
iyprjyopcov (line 2i), comes the text of En. 8: 46-10: 14 (pp. 15, 22-16, 32),
and, introduced by Kal [lederepay that of En. 15: 8-16: i (pp. 16, 33-17, 7).
The last section of this part, introduced by KOL adOcg irepl rov opovs (p. 17,
7 end-17), comes in my opinion from the Book of Giants (see below,
pp. 317-20). The general subscription of the second part is as follows: KOX
ravra fiev €K rov a ^t^Xlov 'Evc^x' '^^pl T&V iyprjyopojv (p. 17, 17 end-i8). It
will be seen that the passage En. 8: 4-9: 4 is duplicated; we denote the text
of this passage at its second occurrence by the siglum S', in contrast to S
which denotes the remainder of the quotations from Syncellus.4
' See editio princeps (signed in Cairo, lated I Enoch? Or was he perhaps himself this
November 1891): U. Bouriant, 'Fragments du man?' (p. 13). Aalen was right, however, in
texte grec du livre d'Enoch et de quelques stressing the superiority of Greek texts of
6crits attribu6s h. Saint Pierre*, Mimoires . . . , Enoch over the Ethiopic, against the defenders
ix. I (1892), 93-147 (text of Enoch, pp. iii- of the latter, such as C. C. Torrey in Journal
36); photographic edition, 'Reproduction en of the American Oriental Society, Ixii (1942),
heliogravure du manuscrit d'Enoch et des 58, and G. Zuntz in Journal of Theological
Merits attribu^s k Saint Pierre, avec introduction Studies, xiv (1944), 162 and 169.
de M. A. Lods', ibid. ix. 3 (1893) 217-39 * See H. Gelzer, Sextus Julius Africanus und
(Enoch, pp. 228-32 and pis. XI-XXXIII). die byzantinische Chronographie, ii. i: Die
Most recent manual edition by M. Black, Nachfolger des Julius Africanus, iSS 5, pp, 262-4.
Apocalypsis Henochi Graece (Pseudepigrapha ^ It has been re-examined by H. J. de Jonge
Veteris Testamenti Graece, iii. i), Leiden, 1970. (Black, loc. cit., pp. 14-16) and by me.
I have checked C and C from reproductions in * Editio princeps of the Enochic passages
Mimoires, ix. 3. by Scaliger (quoted above, p. v); editions of
An unconvincing theory of a close relation- the Chronography of Syncellus: J. Goar,
ship between the Greek Enoch and St. Luke's Paris 1652 and Venice 1729; G. Dindorf,
Gospel was proposed by A. Aalen, iV^ T^sia- Bonn 1829, vol. i (quotation from Enoch:
ment Studies, xiii (1966-7), 1-13: *Was Luke pp. 20, 1-23, 5 and 42, 18-47, 19); cf. Black,
personally acquainted with the man who trans- loc. cit., pp. 21-30.