The combination of shared elements is so striking as to preclude the possibility that the Book of the Parables and the Letters of Paul constituted independent, parallel developments. Comparative analysis demonstrates that the Book of the Parables and the Letters of Paul share specific conceptual elements of messianic traditions. The literature demonstrates a complex variety of expressions for describing interactions between the divine figure and all other created beings. This has implications for understanding divine and human agency and the relationships between mediatorial figures and the one God in Jewish literature from the Second Temple period. Conceptual elements of messianic traditions are identified in these documents by examining the nature and functions of the divine figure and the nature and functions of the messiah figure. A comparative analysis of the Messiah in the Book of the Parables of Enoch and the Letters of Paul, this study locates one aspect of Paul’s thought, his christology, in the context of Jewish intellectual traditions of the first century CE. This presents those who read Paul’s Letters with a problem: how to locate Paul’s thought within the complicated matrix of Jewish intellectual traditions of this period. ""In the first century CE Jewish identity was defined in a context of significant religious diversity.
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