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

Introduction xxxi
HoFMANN (J. Chr. K.)j ' Ueber die Entstehungszeit des Buch
Henoch ' {ZeitscJir. D. M. G. vl. 1852, pp. 87-91) ; Schriflbeweu
(2nd ed.), i. 4-20-423 ; Die lieil. Schrift N. T.'s zmam.meiihdtigend
imtersucht, vii. 2, pp. 205 sqq. Hofmann regards Enoch as the
work of a Christian writer of the second century a. d. His chief
contribution to the understanding of Enoch is his correct inter-
pretation of the seventy shepherds in 89-90.
DiLLMANx, Das Buch Henoch ubersetzt und erkldii, Leipzig,
1853. This edition at once displaced the two that preceded
itj corrected their many ungrammatical renderings, and furnished
an excellent translation of a text based on five MSS. So much,
however, has been done in the criticism of Enoch since 1853 that
the need of a new edition was imperatively needed alike in respect
of the text, translation, interpretation, and criticism of the book.
As for the translation some of the renderings are grammatically
impossible; and as regards his interpretation of the book, this
has been pressed and strained in order to support the critical
views which he then held but which he has long since abandoned.
His critical views indeed have undergone many changes, but
these undoubtedly are in the right direction.
In his edition of 1853 Dillmann insisted that the book pro-
ceeded from one author, with the exception of certain historical
additions, 6-16 911^-1' 93 106-10r,and of certain Noachic inter-
polations, 54T-552 60 65-69^5, and also of 20 70 75^ 82^"^"
108.
In 1860 in Herzog's R.-B., cd. 1, vol. xii. 308-310, and
in 1871 in Schenkel's Blhel-Lex. iii. 10-13, he recognized the
separate authorship of 37-71 and asserted with Ewald its j)riority
to the rest of the book.
In 1883 in Herzog's K-¥j., ed. 2, vol. xii. 350-352 he
abandons his original standpoint so far as to describe the
Book of Enoch as a mere ' combination of the Enoch and Noah
writings', and concedes that 37-71 are later than the rest of the
book. His final analysis is as follows. (1) 1-36 72-105, with
the exception of certain interpolations, form the groundwork
and were composed in the time of J. Hyrcanus. (2) 37-71,