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

Ixviii T/?p Booh of Enoch
651"*'. < Because of the sorceries -which they have searched out and
learnt, the earth and those who dwell upon it shall be destroyed.'
Instead of ' sorceries ' the Ethiopic reads ' months ' = D''ty'Tn, which
Haleyy rightly recognized as a corrujjtion of D''B'"in = ' sorceries '.
It is true that on an exceptional occasion Aramaic-spealsing Jews
used NitJ'in instead of their own word NTIIV Hence the eyidence for
a Hebrew original is slightly weakened here.
The text of this passage as known to Halevy and originally to
myself was corrupt, and Schmidt rightly objected to this text even
when emended as follows :
' because of the sorceries which they have
searched out and (through which) they know that the earth . . . will
be destroyed.' Schmidt observes that it ' is a strange idea that the
terrible judgement of the flood would come because men had suc-
ceeded in discovering that the earth with its inhabitants would be
destroyed '. This observation is just, but the remedy lies in the
MSS. g t u, which omit the ' that '. The omission of this word
restores the meaning of the whole verse. See note on p. 131.
From the above evidence we infer a Hebrew original. As in the
Hebrew chapters of Daniel, so here there were possibly many
Aramaisms.
Chapters 72-82. F7-om a Hebreiv original.
76ii ^*. Here the word in the text ' winds ' =
ninn, which should
have been rendered ' quarters '. This restoration is possible both in
Hebrew and Aramaic.
771. In this verse there is a play on the four quarters of the earth.
It is possible to recover this play by retranslation into either Hebrew
or Aramaic in the case of the ' east ' and ' north ' : Olp or Dili? and
|iav or I1SS.
But this is not so in the case of the ' south ' and ' west '. As regards
the first the text reads ' the south, because the Most High will
descend there, yea there . . will He . . . descend ' = D"! Ti..'; ^3 Dhl.
This is possible only in Hebrew.
77^. 'And the west quarter is named (lit. ' its name ') diminished
because there all the luminaries wane.' '3 )1~inN UDB' JTinvcn nnni
nniNDn-i'3 nnx'' db'.
781. Of tije two names of the sun which are transliterated, though
corruptly, in this verse, one is Hebrew and not Aramaic ; i. e.
Orjares = onn liN. The other, Tomas cf. = TltSPl, is Hebrew and
Aramaic; but if it is corrupt from nDH, as Halevy conjectures,
it is Hebrew.