The Book of Enoch

Lazarus Goldschmidt¹⁾ has provided a Hebrew translation, but not from the Ethiopic text; rather, it is based on Dillmann’s German translation.²⁾

Besides the Ethiopic translation, the following larger fragments of the Book of Enoch have been preserved:

1. The Greek fragments of Gizeh, discovered in the winter of 1886—1887 by the Mission Archéologique française French Archaeological Mission at Akhmîm, first published with a facsimile by M. Bouriant, Mémoires publiés par les membres de la Mission archéologique française au Caire Memoirs published by the members of the French Archaeological Mission in Cairo, Vol. IX, 1 and 3, Paris, 1892.¹⁾ They offer Ch. I—XXXII 6, and Ch. XX 2—XXI 9 in a double version (P¹ and P²).

2. Larger citations by Synkellos, mostly running parallel to the text from Gizeh. Through the mediation of Prof. Harnack, Prof. Gelzer has made v. Gutschmid’s collations and his emendations available to me for these pieces. I express my heartfelt thanks to him here.

3. A Greek fragment in the Codex Vaticanus Gr. 1809, treated in detail by Gildemeister, Zeitschr. D. M. G. Journal of the German Oriental Society 1855, p. 621 to 624.²⁾

1. L. Goldschmidt, The Book of Enoch translated back from the Ethiopic into the original language of composition, with an introduction and notes. Berlin 1892.
2. See Joh. Bachmann, Old Testament Investigations, Berlin 1894, Appendix p. XI ff.
3. This edition contains a photographic facsimile (which I, of course, used as a starting point) and its transcription in ordinary letters. Shortly thereafter appeared: Le livre d'Hénoch, fragments grecs découverts à Akkmîm (Haute-Égypte) publiés avec les variantes du texte éthiopien traduits et annotés The Book of Enoch, Greek fragments discovered at Akhmîm (Upper Egypt), published with the variants of the Ethiopic text, translated and annotated by Adolphe Lods, Paris, Leroux 1892. From Germany, two important contributions by Dillmann: On the newly found Greek text of the Book of Enoch. Proceedings of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Philosophical-historical Class No. LI and LIII, Year 1892. First report p. 1039 ff. Second report (with text) p. 1079 ff. Finally, the translation by Beer also provides valuable contributions for the Greek text in the notes.
4. Cf. also v. Gebhardt (Marx' Archive II, 1872, p. 243), who has re-examined the manuscript.