I have noticed that the apocalyptic literary genre proliferated very much during the 3rd century BCE. Both have been dated before the beginning of the Revolt of the Maccabeus, 2nd century BCE. On this opportunity I will present the study comparing selected texts of The Book of Daniel and the Apocalypse of the Animals (1he 85-90) belonging to the Cycle of Enoch. I have been working in the analysis of the genre by means of the historic-exegetic method, for a long time to find out if there was political-historic sense of the Jewish -Palestinian apocalyptical, and what it consisted in. The aim of my presentation in the Congress of SBL in Buenos Aires, in the “Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha” in the “Hellenistic-Judaism Units” is to share my findings about the “Sense of History in Early Apocalypticism” in Palestine.
Interestingly, Mk 14:62a begins an historicization process in response to the delay of the parousia, and this technique is accentuated uniquely by Lk 22:69 and Acts 7:55-56. Both Jewish and Christian apocalypses present the Son of Man as a super-celestial being who plays an integral role in apocalyptic expectation for cosmic transformation. In Mk 8:38 13:26, he functions as the advocate or accuser, but in Matt 19:28 24:30-31 25:31 he functions as the judge. Whereas the Son of Man is an angelic or pre-existent being in Jewish apocalyptic, one who either ushers in the final judgment or enters into battle at the dawn of the Messianic age, in Christianity he is the resurrected Jesus who returns to earth for the apocalyptic judgment. The fifth section present my conclusion that the synoptic presentation of the coming of the Son of Man borrows from Jewish apocalyptic and develops the concept in a Christian direction. Elements of continuity corroborate the reading.
The fourth section looks at the way two early Christian apocalyptic texts understood the Son of Man concept in order to provide dis/confirmation for the proposed reading: 1. The third section explores how these sources influenced the NT usage of the apocalyptic Son of Man focusing on select passages. It also surveys the developing “heavenly enthronement” traditions and its influence on apocalyptic portrayals of the Son of Man. The second section reviews three Jewish apocalyptic sources for the Son of Man concept: 1. The first section briefly discusses the genre of Jewish apocalyptic. The following essay explores the Jewish background of the apocalyptic Son of Man in the New Testament (NT).
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