Enoch, was of uncertain date, by no means clearly pre-Christian, and part of a work with some claim to be rated among the ‘hundred worst books’ (H. L. Goudge, endorsed by Campbell, 148). The expectation of a heavenly messiah, even if pre-Christian, was probably current only among the public for books like Enoch, a body not necessarily representative of Jews in general. The phrase ‘son of man’ was much more likely to have been associated with Dan. 7, a passage certainly generally known among pre-Christian