Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Previous surveys of research -- Overview of the debate -- 1 GENEALOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS -- The son of Anthropos -- The son of the human -- The son of Mary -- The son of Adam -- The son of Joseph -- Evaluation -- 2 THE HUMAN SON OF MAN -- The simply human Son of Man -- The lowly human Son of Man -- Lowliness of nature: the weak, miserable man -- Lowliness of class: man of the lower classes -- Lowliness by contrast -- The superior human Son of Man -- The pre-eminent man -- The ideal man -- The goal of human history -- The human Son of Man in the twentieth century -- Evaluation -- 3 THE APOCALYPTIC/MESSIANIC SON OF MAN -- The Danielic son of man -- The triumph of Daniel 7.13 -- The human messianic Son of Man -- The Enochic Son of Man -- The heavenly Messiah -- Date of the Similitudes -- Disputed issues -- 4 THE QUESTION OF REFERENCE -- Son of Man as a titular self-designation -- A cryptic self-designation -- An idiomatic self-designation -- A proleptic self-designation -- A borrowed self-designation -- Son of man as a nontitular idiom -- Son of Man as a corporate entity -- Son of Man as a Messiah other than Jesus -- Son of Man as language of the church -- 5 THE QUESTION OF AUTHENTICITY -- Only non-apocalyptic sayings authentic -- Only apocalyptic sayings authentic -- Both apocalyptic and non-apocalyptic sayings authentic -- Proleptic or hidden Son of Man -- A revised Son of Man -- A Danielic son of man who suffers -- Unifying theme -- No sayings authentic -- Absence of the expression outside of the Gospels -- Psychological considerations -- Historical considerations -- Critical analysis of the Gospel traditions -- 6 MISCELLANEOUS SONS OF MEN -- Son of man in Ezekiel -- Ezekiel's son of man as prophet.

Ezekiel's son of man as lowly human -- Ezekiel's son of man as ideal human -- Evaluation of the Ezekielic son of man -- Son of man in the Psalms -- Evaluation -- Son of Man as Primal Man -- The Son of Man as the Son of God -- Apocalyptic Son of God -- Son of Man as a circumlocution -- Distinctive sons of men -- The Johannine Son of Man -- 7 EXIT THE APOCALYPTIC SON OF MAN? -- The nineteenth-century consensus -- The twentieth-century consensus -- Dissolution of the consensus -- Qumran and the Similitudes of Enoch -- 1. Date -- 2. Provenance -- 3. Relation to the New Testament -- No unified pre-Christian Son of Man concept -- No pre-Christian Son of Man title -- Exit the apocalyptic Son of Man -- Responses -- Pre-Christian Son of Man defended -- Apocalyptic Son of Man created by Jesus -- Apocalyptic Son of Man created by church -- Non-apocalyptic Son of Man -- 8 THE IDIOMATIC/NONTITULAR SON OF MAN -- A circumlocution for "I'' -- Phase 1: 1557-1835 -- Phase 2: 1894-1966 -- Phase 3: 1967- -- Reference to "man" in general or "a man -- Phase 1: 248-1792 -- Phase 2: 1896-1967 -- Phase 3: 1967- -- Critique -- Evaluation -- 9 SON OF MAN IN APOCALYPTIC AND RABBINIC TEXTS -- Daniel 7.13 in 1 Enoch 37-70 -- Daniel 7.13 in 1 Enoch 71 -- Daniel 7.13 in 4 Ezra 13 -- The vision as independent -- Pseudo-Ezra's interpretation -- The man: a heavenly being? -- A unified Son of Man tradition? -- A common model: George Nickelsburg -- Common assumptions: John Collins and Thomas Slater -- Daniel 7.13 in rabbinic literature -- Summary and conclusion -- 10 CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX: SURVEYS OF RESEARCH ON "THE SON OF MAN'' -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF PASSAGES -- Hebrew Bible -- Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha -- New Testament -- Other early Christian literature -- Rabbinic literature -- INDEX OF AUTHORS -- Ancient authors -- Modern authors -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

Comprehensive overview of the 'Son of Man' debate spanning 2,000 years' research on the topic.

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