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The Book of Enoch.
Lods: Le Livre d'Henoch, Fragments grecs, decouverts a
Akhmim, publies avec les variantes du texte ethiopien, traduits et
annotes, Paris, 1892. For some unexplained reason France
has not till the present made any original contribution to the
study of Enoch, though it has been prolific enough in works
of a secondary importance on this subject. But M. Lods has
broken through this evil tradition and presented us with
a work of first-class importance, a work that is at once
learned, scholarly, and judicious. I have been obliged, how-
ever, to traverse his main conclusions on the relative values
of the Ethiopic version and the Giz. Gk. text; but this
is due not to the fault but the misfortune of M. Lods, as
he was not acquainted with any better representative of the
Ethiopic version than Dln.'s corrupt text. See further, p. 319.
On some other occasion I hope to review at some length this
attractive and suggestive book.
CRITICAL INQUIRIES.
Bissell : The Apocrypha of the Old Testament, 1880, pp.
66$ } 666. In this short account of Enoch the usual analysis
into Groundwork, Similitudes, and Noachian fragments is
accepted.
Schwally : Das Leben nach dem Tode, 1893. The traditional
division of the book of Enoch into the Groundwork, Simili-
tudes, and Noachic interpolations is here assumed, p. 136.
The author, however, is very arbitrary in his interpretation of
the text and is often demonstrably wrong; and this is all
the more to be regretted as his work is at once original and
suggestive. The instances in which the book of Enoch is
used or interpreted will be found given at length on p. 300
of Schwally's book.
ZOckler : Die Apocryphen des Alten Testaments i 1891,
pp. 426-436. Like most writers this author assumes the
book of Enoch to consist of a Groundwork of chapters i-xxxvi;
lxxii-cv (135-105 b. a): the Similitudes (of uncertain date)