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

SECTION V
(chapters XCI— CIV)
INTRODUCTION
A. Critical Structure. B. Relation of 91-104 to {a) 1-36; (6)
83-90. C. Authorshiji and Date. D. The Problem and its
Solution.
A. Critical Structure. This section may be regarded as
eomplete in the jnain ajid self-consistent. It ias in some degree
suffered at the hands of the iinal editor of the book, both in the way
of direct interpolation and of severe dislocations of the text. The
interpolations are— 91" 93"-" 94^ ge^. The dislocations of the
text are a more important feature of the book. They are confined
(with the exception of 93^^-^*, and of lOB^'^a which should be read
immediately after 106^*) to 91-93. All critics are agreed as to the
chief of these.
91'^-^' should undoubtedly be read directly after 93.
In 93 we have an account of the first seven weeks of the ten into
which the world's history is divided, and in 91'^"^^ of the last
three weeks. Taken together 93^"'*' 91'^-^^ form an independent
whole—the Apocalypse of Weeks— which has been incorporated in
91-104. See notes in loo. But this is far from a full account of the
matter. The remaining dislocations only need to be pointed out in
order to be acknowledged. On other grounds (pp. 65 sq., 219 sqq.)
we find that 91-104 is a book of different authorship to the rest
of the sections. Xow this being so, this section obviously begins
with 92—' Written by Enoch the scribe,' &c. On 92 follows 91i-">
15-1" as a natural sequel, where Enoch summons his children to
receive his parting words. Then comes the Apocalypse of Weeks,
931-10 9ii2-i7_ Tj^e original order of the text, therefore, was :
92 911-10, 18-19 931-10 9112-n 94_ These dislocations were the
work of the editor, wlio put the different books of Enoch together
and added 80 and 81.
B. (a) Relation of 91-104 to 1-36. Do these sections proceed
from the same author? or if not, of what nature is the manifest