{"id":61584,"date":"2024-01-16T01:02:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T06:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=61584"},"modified":"2024-01-01T10:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T15:03:28","slug":"son-of-man-the-dialogue-part-thirteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2024\/01\/16\/son-of-man-the-dialogue-part-thirteen\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Son of Man&#8217;&#8211; The Dialogue: Part Thirteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/91i01wFnmWL._SL1500_-5.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61506\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/91i01wFnmWL._SL1500_-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Q. Richard help my readers understand why it is important to understand the way Dan. 7 is interpreted in the Parables of Enoch, especially if the latter is too late to have influenced Jesus or his early followers? How would you sum up the importance of the Enochian material for the study of the Son of Man issue in the NT especially if in Enoch the phrase \u2018Son of man\u2019 is not a title for some messianic figure?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A. Even if the Parables is earlier than I have argued, the most important point is that there is no title \u201cthe Son of Man: in the book. The phrase \u201cthat son of man\u201d is fraed in order to refer back to a figure already encountered in the visions, and so it cannot be taken out of its literary context and used as a recognizable title for a known figure. 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