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Introduction xlvii
they are from this source; also 106-107. Furthermore, 6-11 ^
are derived from the same work. These latter chapters never
refer to Enoch, but to Noah. Moreover, where the author of
Jubilees in 720-25 describes the laws laid down by Noah for his
children, and Noah's accounts of the evils that had brought the
Flood upon the earth, he borrows not only the ideas, but at
times the very phraseology of these chapters. Finally, we may
observe that chapters 88-891 presuppose a minute acquaintance
with chapter 10. 54''-552 probably belong to the same source.
The Noachic fragments ineservei in this book are thus : 6-11 54-55^
60 65-6925 106-107.
These facts throw some light on the strange vicissitudes to
which even the traditional legends were subject. Thus it would
appear that the Noah saga is older than the Enoch, and that
the latter was built up on the debris of the former.
Having now disposed of the earlier materials utilized by the
writers of the different Sections of Enoch, we shall now proceed
to deal with the five Sections or Books in the order of their
occurrence.
Section I. 1-36. We have already seen that 6-11 belonged
originally to the Book of Noah; 12-16, on the other hand, are
a vision or visions of Enoch in which he intercedes on behalf of
Azazel and the Watchers. These visions are preserved in a
fragmentary form, and not in their original order—a fact which
is most probably due to the editor of the whole work, since the
same dislocation of the text recurs in 78-80 and 91-93. The
original order of 12-16 was, so far as the present fragmentary
text goes : 14^ . . . 131-2 133 133 134-10 i42_i62 ig^-s || IQ^-*.
12i~2 is an editorial introduction.
This portion of our text began obviously with the words ; I41
' The book of the words of righteousness, and of the reprimand
^ Even these chapters are composite ; for they are a conflation of two distinct
cycles of myths relating respectively to Semjaza and Azazel (see later under
the text, pp. 13-14 notes), and this conflation was anterior to the date of the
-Dream Visions, which presuppose the existence of these chapters in theii' present
form, or at all events of chapter 10.