Textual analysis reveals critical flaws in single-witness and eclectic translations of 1 Enoch 22, highlighting the necessity of a synoptic editing approach.
In the practice of editing and translating 1 Enoch, there are usually two ways of dealing with the textual evidence. Some translations represent an eclectic hybrid text, which is based on all textual witnesses, but historically never existed. In other cases, the translation is based on one textual witness because this either comes close to the postulated final text or offers a complete and text-critically trustworthy text. Both ways, however, are inadequate from a historical perspective because each fails to acknowledge the entire textual evidence. Therefore, I argue for a synoptic approach, which I will illustrate and explain using the example of a new synoptic edition and translation of 1 Enoch 22. This is the second part of a two-part publication where I present the new edition and synoptic translation of 1 Enoch 22.
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Mirjam Judith Bokhorst (2026) studied this question.