Anyone have the Greek Text for 1 Enoch 39:4? I'd like to know the Greek word for 'dwelling places'. Thanks.
I think we might be waiting for a non-Logos source (the greek).
For anyone else, an excellent site for this type of question:
http://ocp.tyndale.ca/1-ethiopic-apocalypse-of-enoch#39-39
You select the document, chapters, etc and it progressively narrows the mss available. If it consistently says no can find, re-start at document level.
This is especially handy using Logos DSS sectarian resources, where you want a specific 'chapter'.
Alex, I can't tell you what word might have been used when 1 Enoch was translated into Greek, but FYI, here's what Nickelsburg has to say about it:
Thus, the title “the holy and righteous” parallels the same title for their angelic patrons and is a partial counterpart to the fuller title, the holy, the righteous, and the chosen. The passage reveals that the holy, the righteous, and the chosen who have died are not in the mountain of the dead (see chap. 22) or in Sheol (see 102:5) but already in heaven. Heavenly fellowship with the angels, which 104:6 expects in the future, is a present reality in the Parables. On the relationship of this notion to the Parables’ expectation of a renewed earth, see §4.2.6.3 above, pp. 51–52. The term “dwelling” (maḫdar > ḫadara, “to dwell”) is used in the Parables principally with reference to heavenly entities, whether humans, angels, the Chosen One, Wisdom, or the elements. The Eth. noun can translate a variety of Gk. terms, for example, κατάλυμα, κατοικτήριον, οἰκία and σκηνή. A possibility here is μονή (> μένω, “to remain”), the noun translated by mah̬dar in John 14:2*. The companion word, here translated “resting places,” is Eth. maskāb, a place where one lies down, translating perhaps κλίνη or κοίτη, a bed or couch. The pairing occurs in the Parables with reference to the sinners in 38:2 and 46:6, where the second noun is meʿerāf (lit. “resting place”). The point is not necessarily that the angels rest (contrast “those who sleep not,” 39:12–13), but that the holy and righteous dwell and rest (from the suffering inflicted by the kings and the mighty?) in the presence of the angels.George W. E. Nickelsburg and James C. VanderKam, 1 Enoch 2: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 37–82, ed. Klaus Baltzer, Hermeneia—A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2012), 112.
Thanks Denise. Yeah, I couldn't find any Greek text in Logos. No answer at the link but that looks like an interesting site.
Thanks Allen. I suspect the word is μονή since a reference is made to 1 Enoch 39:4 in the discussion of the word in the TDNT.
