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Introduction XXIX
tions have been accepted in the present edition. On close
examination, however, Flemming's edition proves unsatisfactory
from its frequent inaccuracy in the collation of the MSS.
generally, and its inadequate collation of the first-class MSS.
In my review of this edition in the American Journal of Theology,
pp. 689-703, 1903, I have summed up its serious shortcomings
under the following heads : (i) Inaccurate and defective collation of
the MSS. ; (ii) The adoption of inferior readings into the text
where the MSS. evidence for the true text is incontrovertible.
Flemming's treatment of the great Berlin MS. q on chapters
10-33 will exemplify his method in dealing with the other
MSS. In six passages in these chapters q alone amongst the
Ethiopic MSS. preserves the true text of B, as is proved by G.
Yet in two of them, 31^ (note 34),i 34^ (note 41), q is not collated
at all, and in the remaining four, 10^* (note 16), 14^ (note 39),
32^ (note 35), 33* (note 31), the reading of q is relegated to the
notes, and the wrong reading adopted. In 10'^ (note 31) q
practically gives the original text (which is preserved by n alone),
but the corrupt text is adopted by this editor, (iii) Corrupt
passages are left in the text without any attempt to emend them
or even to call attention to their viciousness, (iv) Divergencies
hetween G and E are left ^inexplaliied . (v) Fractically no use
is made of the Semitic lackground for purposes of emendation.
Notwithstanding the above shortcomings. Dr. Flemming's
edition is deserving of the gratitude of Orientalists, as it con-
stitutes a vast advance on that of Dillmann, and forms on the
whole a serviceable work for students generally.
Charles, The Ethiopia Version of the Book of Enoch, editedfrom
twenty-three MSS. together with the fragmentary Greek and Latin
Versions, 1906.
§ 10. Translations.
Laukbnce, The Book of Enoch, an apocryphal production, now
first translated from an Ethiopic MS. in the Bodleian Library,
Oxford, 1831.
^ The refsrenoes enclosed in brackets are to the critical notes in my edition of
the Ethiojiic text, 1906.