This book examines four texts-1 Enoch, 4QInstruction, Matthew and 2 Enoch-and argues that in each the revealing of wisdom to an elect group inaugurates the eschatological period. This idea leads to the fusion of sapiential and apocalyptic elements.

Grant Macaskill, Ph.D. (2005) in Biblical Studies, University of St Andrews, is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews, where he is producing a critical edition of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch and teaches New Testament.