The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

THE GREEK VERSION 75
hand of this manuscript, to which belong also the marginal additions of ff.
216^^-217% is that of Paul I, a disciple and the successor of St. Nilus as abbot
of Grottaferrata, who wrote it in Calabria towards the end of the tenth
century. The quotations of En. 89: 42-9 have occurred, in the exemplar used
by Paul, as a scholion to the Dialogos on the 'Life of St. John Chrysostomus'
by Palladius. Precisely in an extract of it, copied in Vat. Gr. 1809, ff. 216''-
217^^ (margins), there is a passage where a liar is compared with various
animals:^ heiXos iariv wg Xaycpos, dpaavg cog x^^P^^j (f- ^^7"" niargo sup.)
iffevGTTjg cos x^H'^^'^^^^y OLTrarecbv cog TrepSt^, dvqixepos cog /iw, dveXe'qfMCov cog
XvKog.
Two fragments which I have quite recently identified come, on the other
hand, from a normal codex of the Book of Dreams, dating from the end of
the fourth century. This is Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2069,^ where the fragment
i'^+2'^ is equivalent to En. 85: 10-86: 2, and 1^+2^ to En. 87: 1-3.^
The greater part of the Epistle of Enoch has been preserved in a papyrus
codex of the fourth century, six leaves of which were acquired in 1930 by the
University of Michigan and eight leaves by A. Chester Beatty (now in the
Chester Beatty Library in Dublin). The codex was originally composed
of two quires, the first containing eight leaves (of which the first was left
blank and the following seven were paginated from 'i' to '14') and the
second containing fourteen leaves numbered from '15' to '42'; the pagination
is later than the copying of the text. Of the first quire there remain
only a few fragments, three of which belonged without doubt to an Ezekiel
apocryphon. The recto (in other words, the side on which the writing
follows the direction of the horizontal fibres) of fr. 3 of the pseudo-Ezekiel
contains some words of the text of Enoch, probably En. 91: 3-4."^ Eight other
small fragments could likewise belong to Enoch; one of these can in my
opinion be identified with En. 92: i.^ The almost continuous text of En.
97: 6-107: 3 begins on p. '15', [tc'], and finishes in the middle of p. '26',
where, after the subscription 'ETTIGTOXTI 'EVCOX there begins MeX-qrcovy the
homily of Melito of Sardis on the Passion. At the foot of each page anything
(Vat, Gr, i8og) in Studi e Testi, 263 (1970), p. 19, and Milik, Chronique d'Egypte, 1971,
11-16. no. 92, pp. 323-32.
' Gitlbauer, loc. cit., i, pp. 96, 9-10 (cf.
PG 47, 77-8).
' See 4QEn« i i (below, p. 259); and for
^ transcription, C. Bonner, The Homily on the
2 A.' S. Hunt, Part XVII, 1927, pp. 6-8: Passion by Melito bishop of Sardis and some
'Apocalyptic Fragment'. fragments of the Apocryphal Ezekiel (Studies
3 Fr. 3^ can be identified with En. 77: and Documents, xii), 1940, p. 187.
7-78: I, and fr. 3' with En. 78: 8; see above, ' See En« i ii 22-3 (below, pp. 261-2).