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

Hi The Book of Enoch
lielaliou to 83-90. In 91-104 the Messianic kingdom is
temporary in duration, but not so in 83-90 : in the former the
final judgement is consummated at the close of the kingdom, m
the latter at its beginning. In 91-104 there is a resurrection of
the righteous only ; in 83-90 of the righteous and the apostate
Jews. The kingdom to which the righteous rise in 91-104 is not
the temporary kingdom on the earth but the new heaven, but m
83-90 it is the Messianic kingdom on the earth.
105. This chapter appears to be an independent fragment.
106-107. These chapters have already been dealt with as
part of the Book of Noah.
108. This chapter forms an Appendix to the entire work,
added not by the editor but by a subsequent writer to confirm
the lighteous in the face of repeated disappointment in their
expectations.
§ 13, ChaI! ACTBRISTICS AND DaTES OF THE DIFFERENT
Elements.
I will here deal with these elements in the order of their age.
Book of Noa//. This book was, as we have seen already, laid
under contribution by the author of the Book of Jubilees and by
the general editor of Enoch. Part of it is embodied in 6-36,
and this part is presupposed as already existing by 83-90. Now,
since 83-90 cannot be later than 161 B.C., it follows that we have
here the leruiimts ad quew of this work.
6-36. Since 6-16 23-36 were known to the author of tlie
Book of Jubilees (see my edition, p. Ixix), this Section must have
been written before the latter half of the second century B.C.
Since, further, 83-90, written before 161 B.C., show a minute
acquaintance with 10, the dale of 6-11 must be put back to the
first third of that century. Many other points in 83-90 (see
p. 179) point to the acquaintance of the author of 83-90 with
6-36. Again, since 6-36 makes no reference to the persecu-
tion of Antiochus, the terminus ad quern is thus fixed at 170 b. c.
The fact that 6-36 was written in Aramaic is in favour of pre-
jNIaccabean date; for when once a nation recovers, or is trying