The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

THE LATIN, COPTIC, AND SYRIAC TRANSLATIONS 83
Similarly the Enochic accounts given by the author of the Cave of Treasures
and of Chronicon anonymum ad annum 1234 derive, in the last analysis, from
Greek chronicles; Barhebraeus likewise depends on the Chronicle of Michael.
We must conclude that there are no traces of a special version of the works
attributed to Enoch in Syriac literature.
THE ETHIOPIC BOOK OF ENOCH
The first scientific edition of the Ethiopic Enoch was made by A. Dillmann,^
with the help of five manuscripts, a to ^ of Charles's list (see below); we
also owe to him the present division into chapters and verses. Both this
edition and the translation and commentary by the same scholar^ have
remained fundamental to subsequent research. Dillmann later made himself
familiar with three other manuscripts,^ while by 1893 R. H. Charles had added
ten more.4 J. Flemming succeeded in gathering together and describing
twenty-six Ethiopic manuscripts containing the Book of Enoch (equivalent
to twenty-seven in the editions of Charles, who distinguishes between g and
ig); and from the textual point of view his edition has virtually not been
surpassed until the present day.5 It is to Flemming that we owe the present
distribution of the Ethiopic manuscripts into two groups, a and j8: the first
is, as a rule, the older and better; the second represents the vulgate text of
the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. Essentially, however, Flemming's
edition is made from fourteen (= fifteen of Charles's) manuscripts, a-e
and gmpqtuvwy. Charles's edition of 1906^ is based on twenty-three
manuscripts, and in his translation of 1912^ he enumerates twenty-nine, as
follows:
a. Bodley 4. Enoch only (105 chapters = actual 108 chapters), 40 ff. Latter
half of eighteenth century.
* Liber Henoch Aethiopice, Leipzig 1851. J. Flemming and L. Radermacher, Das Buch
* Das Buch Henoch Ubersetzt und erkldrt, Henoch (GCS 5), Leipzig 1901.
Leipzig 1853. ^ The Ethiopic Version of the Book of Enoch
^ Sitz, Preuss, Ak, Berlin, li-liii (1892), (Anecdota Oxoniensia, Semitic Series XI),
1039-54- Oxford.
* The Book of Enoch translated from Dill" ^ The Book of Enoch or i Enoch translated
mantCs Ethiopic Text emended and revised in ac- anew from the Text with Introduction, Commencordance
with hitherto uncollated Ethiopic MSS, tary. Critical Notes, and Appendices, Oxford,
and with the Gizeh and other Greek and Latin pp. xxi-xxiv; reprinted 1964, Mokelumne Hill,
fragments, Oxford 1893.
Califomia(cf. J. Flemming and L. Radermacher,
5 Das Buch Henoch, dthiopischer Text (Texte GCS 5 (1901), 3-5).
und Untersuchungen xxii. i), Leipzig 1902: cf.