Enochic Fragments from Qumran

The Enochic Fragments from Qumran — Aramaic manuscripts of the Enochic corpus recovered from Cave 4 at Qumran, demonstrating the antiquity of the Enochic tradition.|||Aramaic manuscripts from Qumran Cave 4: 4Q201–4Q212 (Enosh, Enoch, Astronomy, Giants, Parables, Dreams, Epistle). Also 1Q23–24, 2Q26, 6Q8.|||Copied between the 2nd century BCE and the 1st century CE.|||Not canonical in any tradition.|||Critical evidence for the composition history of 1 Enoch and the transmission of Enochic traditions in Second Temple Judaism. Reveals that Parables (Similitudes) may have been composed later than the other books.|||Milik, J. T. The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumrân Cave 4. Oxford, 1976.|||VanderKam, J. C. Enoch and the Growth of an Apocalyptic Tradition. Catholic Biblical Association, 1984.|||Nickelsburg, G. W. E. 1 Enoch 1: A Commentary. Fortress Press, 2001.|||Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library|https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/|View and browse Qumran fragment images.;; Orion Center (Hebrew University)|https://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/|Scholarly database of Dead Sea Scrolls research.|||" And these are the words of Enoch, by which he blessed the elect and the righteous." — 1 Enoch 1:1