Qumran Grotte 4. XXII: Textes Arameens, premiere partie, 4Q529-549 (review)

Including the Ancient Near East as “Western Identity”: The Case of Enochic Traditions in Early Christian Literature

“…As compared with the terse biblical account of Enoch, Enochic literature, pseudepigraphically named after this biblical literature, is vast, including various books of 1 Enoch: the Book of Watchers (1 Enoch 1-36), the Book of Parables (1 Enoch 37-71), the Book of the Luminaries (1 Enoch 72-82), the Dream Visions (1 Enoch 83-90), the Epistle of Enoch (1 Enoch 91-105), the Birth of Noah (1 Enoch 106-107), and a final book (1 Enoch 108), of which the dates of composition range from the late fourth century BCE to the turn of the common era. 52 In its totality, 1 Enoch has only been transmitted as a complete text through late medieval Ethiopic manuscripts. 53 However, Greek fragments and especially Aramaic fragments from Qumran have made it possible to relate 1 Enoch to antiquity, more specifically to the Second Temple 50 Translation from Ref.…”

“…[44] 23: "Some critics have argued that the two lists reflect competing versions that deploy the same group of fathers and sons in different patterns: some of the names are identical in both lists, otherssuch as Cain-Kenan, Irad-Jared-may well be variants of each other." 52 See Ref. [45] vii, 1-13.…”

“…67 See Ref. [52] 31 on Gilgamesh: "le nom du héros légendaire de l'Épopée suméro-akkadienne, roi d'Uruk, et devenu même une divinité chtonienne." Cf.…”

“…70 Ref. [52] 28. Divine judgment by the Flood leaving giants no escape features in the Hebrew Qumran text 4Q370 (4QExhortation Based on the Flood) col. 1.…”