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

Introduction xliii
Charles. T/ie Book of Enoch, translated from Professor
Billmaniis Ethiopio Text, emended and revised in accordance with
hitherto uncollated Ethiopia MS8. and with the Gizeh and other
Greek aid Latin Fragments, Oxford^ 1893.
Clemen, Theologische Studien und Kritikeu, 1898, pp. 211-
237, 'Die Zusammensetzung des Buches Henoch.' He
emphasizes the varied traditions represented by the different
portions of the book. These twelve traditions the 'author of
the book ' either found committed to writing or he collected them
from oral transmission. The earliest go back to 167 B.C., the
latest to 64 B.C. These traditions are (1) 1-5, (2) 6-11, (3) 12-
16, (4) 17-19, (5) 20(?)-36, (6) 37-69, with some interpola-
tions, (7) 70-71, (8) 721-9110.18 et s(iq.(?), (9) 92 93 911^-"
94-105, (10) 106-107, (11) 108, (12) the Noachic fragments
54''-55^ 60 651-69^^. The author found already existing in
a written form (9) (11) (12), probably (3), and perhaps even (6).
Clemen lays great stress on the changes of person as betraying
the composite character of the work.i
Bebe, ' Das Buch Henoch ' {l)ie Apokryphen und Pseudepi-
tjrapheii des A. T., Kautzsch, vol. ii, 1900, pp. 224-230). Beer
thus divides the work :
(1)
1-5, a work complete in itself and yet forming an intro-
duction in the form of an apologia to the whole book.
(2)
6-11 comprise two different traditions interwoven. The
burden of the former is the revelation of mysteries, and the
judgement by the Flood; that of the latter is the fall of
the angels, their punishment, and the wickedness of the giants.
The blending together of the two traditions was made easier by
the fact that they both alike dealt with the leading astray of
the angels by the daughters of men. This fragment, thus
surviving in two mutilated groups, has been drawn from a
larger cycle of legends which grew up around the name of Noah.
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The two groups might be distinguished as follows {a) :
8* 91-5.9-11 10*-112 and {h)
71'' 81-^ 9«-8 IQi-^.
' The above details are due to Martin.