CALLING HIMSELF THE SON OF MAN
When you call yourself the ‘Son of Man’ as Jesus of Nazareth clearly did (as all the Gospel accounts make clear) it begs the question Why? There is only really one credible knowledgable answer to that question which is that the Son of Man passages in the Book of Enoch were well known at that time two thousand years ago. The only other messianic prophecy mentioning the Son of Man is in the Book of Daniel and there is an allusion to a young man messiah in Second Esdras. These would not be enough of a foundation on which to build an understanding of Jesus of Nazareth’s identity so it must be that the Book of Enoch with the parables sections mentioning the Son of Man existed and were well known at that time. This authenticates the Ethiopian Ge’ez version of the Book of Enoch we have translated into English today.
