The book of Enoch : translated from Professor Dillmann's Ethiopic ...

General Introduction. 7
xxxvii. 2, 5 ; xxxviii. 2 ; xli. 5 ; lxxxiii. 5 ; lxxxv. 2 ; xcix. 5.
Further he has omitted to translate the opening words of
xxxvii. 1 and a clause in xci. 6. As for the interpretation of
the book, this has been pressed and strained in order to sup-
port the critical views which Din. then held but which he has
long since abandoned. His critical views indeed have undergone
many changes, but these undoubtedly are in the right direction.
In his edition of 1 853 Din. insisted that the book proceeded
from one author with the exception of certain historical addi-
tions, vi-xvi; xci. 12-17; xciii; cvi-vii, and of certain
Noachic interpolations, liv. 7-lv. 2; lx; lxv-lxix. 25; and
also cf. xx; lxx; lxxv. 5 ; lxxxii. 9-20; cviii.
In i860 in Herzog's B.E., Ed. 1, vol. xii. 308-310, and in
1 87 1 in Schenkel's (Bibel-Lex.) iii. 10-13, he recognised the
separate authorship of xxxvii-lxxi and asserted with Ewald
its priority to the rest of the book.
In 1883 in Herzog's B. R, Ed. 2, vol. xii. 350-352 he
abandons his original standpoint so far as to describe the book
of Enoch as a mere ' combination of the Enoch and Noah
writings/ and concedes that xxxvii-lxxi are later than the rest
of the book. His final analysis is as follows. (1) i-xxxvi
lxxii-cv, with the exception of certain interpolations, form the
ground-work and were composed in the time of J. Hyrcanus.
(2) xxxvii-lxxi together probably with xvii-xix were written
at latest before 64 B. c. (3) The Noachic fragments vi. 3-8 ;
viii. 1-3 ; ix. 7 ; x. 1, 1 1 ; xx ; xxxix. 1, 2 a ; liv. 7-lv. 2 ; lx
lxv-lxix. 25 ; cvi-cvii. (4) cviii.
Yet despite every defect, Dim's edition will always maintain
a unique position in the Enoch literature.
Schodde. The Book of Enoch translated with Introduction
and Notes, Andover, 1882. The introduction is interesting and
the account of the bibliography though incomplete is helpful,
but the arrangement of the text and notes in this edition
is most inconvenient. The translation is made from Dln/s
Ethiopic text. But the work as a whole is unsatisfactory.
All Dln/s slips and inaccuracies, with one or two exceptions,