db94b all of the elements of Christology ~~~~~~~~~


are
essentially already
in place then in the Similitudes.

We have a preexistent heavenly figure (identified as well with Wisdom), who is the Son of Man.
We have an earthly life, a human sage exalted into heaven at the end of an earthly career, enthroned in heaven
at the right side of the Ancient (Head) of Days as the preexistent and forever reigning Son of Man.
While the Gospels are certainly not drawing on the Similitudes, the Similitudes help illuminate the cultural,
religious context in which the Gospels were produced. As New Testament scholar Richard Baukham so well phrased it,
"IT CAN READILY BE SEEN THAT EARLY CHRISTIANS APPLIED TO JESUS
ALL THE WELL-ORGANIZED CHARACTERISTICS OF THE UNIQUE DIVINE IDENTITY IN ORDER,
QUITE CLEARLY AND PRECISELY, TO INCLUDE YEHOSHUA ('g d saves'knipoog
IN THE UNIQUE IDENTITY OF
THE ONE G D OF ISRAEL!"

In the worship
of the Messiah/Son
of Man/Enoch in the Similitudes of Enoch,
we find the closest parallel
to the Gospels.

Since there is
no reason in the world
to think that either of these texts influenced the other,
together they do provide strong evidence for the confluence of ideas about the human Messiah,
the son of David, and the divine Messiah,
the Son of Man, in Judaism by at least
the first century A.D./CE
& probably
earlier
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