If this appears a rather rash statement, it is perhaps worth recalling just how problematic some of these sources can be when
questions about the
dating, provenance or dissemination are asked: the Similitudes of Enoch (1 Enoch 37 — 71) which contains so many crucial references to Christological titles otherwise thin on the ground
elsewhere outside the New Testament (most notably the enigmatic «Son of Man»), is first attested only in a fifteenth - century Ethiopic manuscript.