is the turn of Elijah. If any OT figure attracted the attention of Jews in the period before Christ, it was Elijah.17 He enjoyed plenty of roles in the literature of the inter-testamental period and was one of the biblical characters who had a book written about him under the title of ‘Apocalypse’, a book which spoke of things ‘which the eye has not seen nor the ear heard’.18 Although we cannot confidently date the Apocalypse of Elijah, if anyone in first century Jewish lore was a potential recipient