COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HEBRAISMS IN THE SHORT RECENSION OF ENOCH 2

Abstract

It has long been known that Enoch 2, short recension, contains plenty of Hebraisms and many scholars commented on them. The present work is the first systematic study of Hebraisms based on two methods: comparative, where Enoch 2 is compared to Zerubbabel, and corpus linguistical, where AntConc software is used to study the words, which can give rise to a Hebraism. The main result of the study leads to a conclusion that Enoch 2, short recension, has a compilational character because the Hebraisms are rendered in different ways: in some occasions by meaning, while in the others word by word. The second result is that the knowledge of the Hebrew meaning of certain Hebraisms, frequently used in the Bible, makes it easier to understand the nuances of some phrases in Enoch 2. The third result is that there is a considerable difference in the types of Hebraisms present in the Book of Zerubbabel and Enoch 2: the former contains much less Hebraisms, yet the most convincing of the Hebrew origin of the protograph, while Enoch 2 contains a lot of Hebraisms and no such ones, which would unequivocally speak for the Hebrew protograph.