an important role in later Jewish developments of the “Son of Man” figure, despite that figure’s crystallization into an individual. In the Similitudes, for example, the Son of Man shares various epithets with the elect people (e.g. “righteous” and “elect”), and his hiddenness parallels their suffering. The people’s ultimate hope, moreover, is that “with that Son of Man they shall eat and lie down and rise up for ever and ever” (62:14; cf. J. J. Collins, Apocalyptic Imagination, 147–49). Similar