Abbreviations
The abbreviations and sigla utilized in this study usually follow The SBL Handbook of Style, 2nd ed. (Atlanta, SBL Press, 2014). The sigla used in the reconstructions and edited text of the Aramaic, Greek and Ethiopic versions of the Book of the Watchers 1:1–9 can be found in Chapter 1 and Appendices 1 and 2. Some additional abbreviations that are frequently used include:
| BW | Book of the Watchers |
| DJD | Discoveries in the Judaean Desert |
| DSD | Dead Sea Discoveries |
| EMML | Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library |
| EOTC | Ethiopic Orthodox Tewahədo Church |
| Eth.EIS | Hypothetical Earliest Identifiable Stratum of the Ethiopic Version based on the Eth. I manuscripts |
| GEth | Hypothetical Greek Vorlage of the Ethiopic Version |
| GJude | Enochic quotation preserved in the Greek Epistle of Jude 14b–15 |
| GSyn | Greek text-type preserved in Chronography of Syncellus |
| HMML | Hill Museum & Monastic Library, Collegeville, MN |
| IAA | Israel Antiquities Authority |
| MS | Manuscript |
| MSS | Manuscripts |
| NT | New Testament |
| OT | Old Testament |