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

24 The Book of Enoch.
of the future lot of the righteous community and of the
righteous individual.
§ 10. The different Elements in the Book of Enoch,
WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE CHARACTERISTICS AND DATES.
The book of Enoch is a fragmentary survival of an entire
literature that once circulated under his name. To this fact
the plurality of books assigned to Enoch from the first may
in some degree point : as for instance the expression ' books
in civ. 12 :
Book of Jubilees iv; vii; Test. XII. Patriarch. Jud.
18; Origen c. Celsum v. 54; in Num. Homil. xxviii. 2 (Ed.
Lommatsch); Aug. Be Civ. Dei xv. 23; and G. Syncellus,
p. 20 (Ed. Dindorf.) 'the first book/
This presumption becomes a matter of demonstration on
the following grounds. The references to Enoch's writings in
the Book of Jubilees and in the Test. XII. Patriarch, cannot
in many instances be traced to the existing book of Enoch.
The last passage attributed by Syncellus to Enoch has no
corresponding part in the Ethiopic. Portions of the Ethiopic
version are manifestly lost, as, for instance, the close of the
first Similitude. And finally two Slavonic MSS. have been
recently published in Russia which belong to this literature
and yet differ from the Ethiopic Enoch throughout in diction
and matter.
This preliminary conclusion is finally confirmed on internal
grounds. All critics are agreed in ascribing the Similitudes
xxxvii-lxxi to a different authorship from the rest. For the
main grounds for this conclusion see pp. 106-107. Criticism
is further agreed as to the presence of a large body of inter-
polations. But the interpolations are far more numerous than
has hitherto been observed, and the discrimination and due
appreciation of these are indispensable to the understanding
of the book. They are found throughout the book, and are
as follows :