s.(110)

Dr. Schechter has laid all students of Judaism under new obligations by
the discovery and publication of these texts. They will join with their
congratulations the hope that he may find yet other treasures among the
accumulations of the Genizah.

FOOTNOTES

1 Documents of Jewish Sectaries. Volume I. Fragments of a Zadokite
Work. Edited, with Translation, Introduction, and Notes, by S.
Schechter. Cambridge University Press. 1910.

2 It may be added that the quotations are singularly inexact.

3 In my translation I have sometimes thought it possible to adhere to
the text where Dr. Schechter has preferred a conjectural emendation.

4 That is, probably, against the legitimate high priest of the time
(perhaps Onias).--The rendering "_by_ his Anointed" is grammatically
admissible, but would be unintelligible in this context.

5 It would be possible to render "the penitents of Israel."

6 The four or five words which follow are unintelligible.

7 The references are to page and line of the Hebrew text.

8 Others sought refuge in Egypt; the temple of Onias at Leontopolis
had its origin in the same circumstances.

9 So they understood the words translated in the English version "the
cruel venom of asps."

10 See 2 Macc. 4 16: "By reason of which (sc. their predilection for
Greek ways) a dire calamity befel them, and those for whose customs
they displayed such zeal and whom they wanted to imitate in
everything became their enemies and avengers." Assumption of Moses,
5 1: "When the times of retribution shall draw near, and vengeance
arises through kings who share their guilt and punish them," etc.,
describes the same situation.

11 Cf. "the whole race of the elect root," Enoch 93 8.

12 See Schuerer, Geschichte des juedischen Volkes (3 ed.), vol. iii. p.
189.

13 A comparison with the Apocalypse of the Ten Weeks in Enoch (93 + 91
12-17) is in point here. The sixth "week" (period of 490 years) ends
with the destruction of the temple by Nebuchadnezzar; in the seventh
a rebellious generation arises, all whose works are apostasy (the
hellenizers of the Seleucid time); at its end the "chosen righteous
men of the eternal plantation of righteousness" are chosen to
receive the sevenfold instruction about God's whole creation
(appar