What we have in 1 Enoch, then, is a substantial development from the picture of Daniel 7. We should not imagine this development as taking place on a unilinear chronological scale: there is no reason at all why different groups and individuals should not have made their own variations on a theme, returned to the original for fresh inspiration, or harked back to earlier interpretations behind current ones.121 Nor is there any need to postulate dependence, whether literary or otherwise, between 1 Enoch on the one hand and 4 Ezra, 2 Baruch and the gospels on the other. Rather, what we have here
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