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

Iviii The Book of Enoch
of a copyist, points to the presence of alternative readings in the
margin of the Hebrew archetype, which were reproduced by the
Greek translator. Other facts point in the same direction : see note
on 5'b below.
1'. In ' He Cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones' the text
reproduces the Massoretic of Deut. 33^ in reading »«ri« = ipx^rai,
whereas the three Targums, the Syriac and Vulgate read rinx = f,.iT
avTov. Here the LXX diverges wholly. The reading NTIN is recognized
as original. The writer of 1-5 therefore used the Hebrew
text and presumably wrote in Hebrew.
5^''. Iv vfjlv Karapaa-ovTai TravTfs oi KarapiLfx-evoL =: v?p^ D33
ti'hb\>K:n-h:i is, SO far as I am aware, a HebreAV idiom, and not an
Aramaic. See note on p. 12.
S^l". Here Gs reads d/xa/arcoo-iv, but E = KpLO-qaovTai = I'^B'K^
(cf. Prov. 30" Isa. 24" Jer. 2', &c.). The parallelism shows that
Gs is right. Here, as in I-' above, we can explain the double
rendering by assuming that one of these readings stood in the text
and the other in the margin.
Since none of the evidence favours an Aramaic original, and
whatever linguistic evidence there is makes for a Hebrew, we may
provisionally conclude in favour of the latter.
Chapters 6-36. The evidence in favour of an Aramaic original
of these chapters is practically conclusive.
(c) Aramaic wordu transliterated in the Greek or Ethiopic.
Amongst the many Semitic words transliterated in these versions
the following are Aramaic and Aramaic only: in Gs cj>ovKa., 18^,
i.e. ays, p.avSoj3apd, 28^, and /3a/?Si;pa, 29\ i.e. N"13"ID. Another
Aramaic form is x^povfSiv,
14'"'' ^^ 20'', but this form is indecisive as
it is found not infrequently iu the LXX. In E manzeran'' for
manzerin, 10", i.e. jniDO ; 'alwa, 31^ (see note m /oc.) = nS"IK.
The Hebrew form is D''^nx.
Other transliterations are parous, 1 0", i. e. ru, which is both
Hebrew and Aramaic: ^aXySaviy, 3P, i.e. n32^n HebreAv or NJU^TI
Aramaic. On the other hand there are two Hebrew words trans-
literated: thus aappav, 31^ = ''"^V, which is not found in Aramaic
but which is rendered Jn Aramaic by f|t:p : and
y^, 27^ = K^J =
'valley', which is a pure Hebrew word, the Aramaic being xi'TI.
1 Here G^ has lia^rjpcovs and cannot account for Ei Hence E lieve, as in 1' 5*
above, presupposes another reading than that in G*, this reading being in the text
or margin of the Greek translation.