the-book-of-enoch-r-h-charles - Fallen Angels

SECTION II
(CHAPTEIIS XXXVII LXXl)
THE PARABLES. INTRODUCTION
A. Critical Structure. B. Relation of 37-71 to the rest of the Book.
C. Date. D. The Problem and its Solution.
A. This Section is in a fragmentary condition, and many of the
critical questions connected with it can only be tentatively solved
or merely stated. It consists in the main of three Parables—38-44,
45-57, 58-69. These are introduced by 37 and concluded by 70
which records Enoch's final translation. 71 ap]pears to be out
of place, and belongs to one of the three Parables. The two visions
recorded in it were witnessed in Enoch's lifetime. See notes in loc.
There are many interpolations. 60 65-69^^ are confessedly from
the Book of Noah. 39^'"^'' 54'''-55^ are probably from the same
work. These interpolations are adapted by their editor to their
adjoining contexts in Enoch. This he does by borrowing character-
istic terms, such as 'Lord of Spirits', 'Head of Days', to which,
however, either through ignorance or of set intention he generally
gives a new connotation : see Notes for details.
There now remain the following chapters and verses: 37-41^ 42
45-540 55^-58 G2-63 69^0-71. But these passages can hardly have
been derived from the same hand originally. There are traces of
a composite origin. Beer, in Kautzsoh's Aimlc. und Pseudep. ii. 227,
has drawn attention to the fact that behind the Parables there
appear to lie two distinct sources— one dealing with the Elect One
(40= 453 492. 4 513. 5 52G, 9 530 554 610, 8, 10 g2i) and the other with
the Son of Man (462, s, 4 432 62'. o, h es^i
692o> 27, 20 7QI ^^it)^
and that in the former the angelus interpres was designated ' the
angel of peace who went with me ' and in the latter ' the angel who
went with me' (see 40^ note). This observation is just, and even
with the present text it is possible, I think, to distinguish these
sources, though Beer has not attempted it. But these two sources do
not account for the whole of the Parables. In 7 1 there are two distinct
visions, 7\^~'^ and 7l5~i', where the angelus interpres is jMichael and
not either of the former angels, unless we identify him with one of