Enoch · Aramaic Qumran witness · 4Q201 · 4Q Enᵃ

What the record covers

The catalogue distinguishes the manuscript from its plate and image records. Passage-level image-to-edition mapping is still needed.

Edition and translation

Library of Congress: Enᵃ I iii 13–16, translation J. C. Greenfield; transcription J. T. Milik amended by Greenfield. The separate Milik 1976 print-edition concordance remains open.

The open research question

Candidate sample photograph B-366868 and Langlois fragment 2 French rendering are now linked in the biography. Confirm the sampled cut and recovery record with the IAA, then verify the exact English edition coverage.

Image and publication rights

Institution-hosted reading route. No image redistribution or new translation licence recorded for Babylon.

Dates and historical context

200–150 BCE · 1993 exhibition assessment

Copy evidence. Historical Library of Congress copy estimate, not current consensus. The biography separately records the 2025 parchment sample P904-Fr009: disjoint calibrated ranges 165–40 BCE and 10–1 BCE. These are material ranges, not a single writing date.

Dates for a copy or material do not automatically establish the date of composition, the events narrated, or a symbolic cycle.

Carry the reading into Babylon

Begin with the surviving words and the edition’s own uncertainty. Then explore Babylon’s named teaching with the Father and Yeshua at its devotional centre. Every reader keeps their dignity, judgement and freedom to question.

Related witnesses and routes

Compare references before combining their contents.