Seventy Shepherds

In the Enoch corpus, "the Dream Visions" running chapters 83-90 in Geez is fragmentary in Aramaic. Last year Loren Stuckenbruck took a side-eye at chapters 83 and 84. That November I allowed chapter 84 might have floated the Red Sea and/or the Nile, whenever; although I agreed that chapter 83 came later, serving to glue chapter 84 to the now-Ethiopic text. Apparently those two chapters aren't the only accretions to the Animal Apocalypse chs. 85f.

Elena Dugan in 2021 noted that chapter 90 isn't at Qumran either. She calls the extract the "Seventy Shepherd Schema", implying that the insertion or appendix actually starts around 89:33. This brings the allegorical history into the post-exilic era and leads into the eschaton. I take it that, contrast (say) Nehemiah, no Dead Sea document ever refers to the Animal Apocalypse beyond that point. So: evidence of absence.

To bound this eschatic era, Dugan sees Barnabas and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs reading all chs. 85-90. I concede (or confess, perhaps): I hadn't read Barnabas enough to notice those allusions, but per VanderKam (pdf) Barnabas 16 has a lot of Dream Vision at least over chs. 85-90. In 2013 Carl Olsen got in on it, in an appendix. From Google Books alone, this intertext is difficult to tease-out; but I read p. 248 that Barnabas was reading Micah 4:1-8 as an outgrowth of "Enoch" here. (Olsen further tagged the Apocalypse of Elijah, but this seems later than Barnabas so irrelevant to Dugan. Although: where's John's Apocalypse?)

The eschaton of chapter 89 involves a second Temple, grander than that of Maccabean times. Could be Herod's, upon its completion; could be the New Jerusalem. Princeton won't let us read the thesis - yet. They are scheduling its release a fortnight from now.