Friday, January 17, 2014

A new Aramaic fragment of 1 Enoch!

MICHAEL LANGLOIS: An Unpublished Aramaic Manuscript of the Book of Enoch. This is apparently a Qumran manuscript and it comes from the Schøyen Collection. Like most Qumran "manuscripts," not much of it survives; only 1 Enoch 7:1-5. But the Aramaic text has some features of interest in relation to the Greek and the Ethiopic texts. Prof. Langlois has published the fragment in the current issue of Semitica and he has also posted the French article as a PDF file: Un manuscrit araméen inédit du livred’Hénoch et les versions anciennes de 1 Hénoch 7,4.

Bit by bit, a letter at a time, whatever it takes. Until we're done.

More on the Schøyen Collection here, here, and links.