cosmological lore.4 The figure of Enoch and the elements of the revelation tradition associated with him originate in the figures of the Mesopotamian apkallū-s (wise ones), more exactly in the figure of the Mesopotamian diviner-king Enmeduranki, and in the tradition about divine revelation given to him.5 Thus it can be assumed that the kernel of the Enochic tradition, the Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 1–36), was shaped either in a Babylonian Jewish diaspora community or perhaps in a community of