is contrasted with the unprecedented disclosures made to Enoch on his heavenly journey, where a whole variety of information is presented. The relation between this wide-ranging revelatory interest and ethical admonition is an important feature of apocalyptic rhetoric. III. THE PURPOSES OF APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE Like the problem of the literary genre, the question of why the apocalypses were written has prompted much discussion. This question can be answered in full only by a study of all the apocalypses,