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268all these questions some revelations, which surpass human understanding. Their principal personages are Enoch, Moses (pbuh) , Baruch, Ezra. These writings are evidently the product of the painful and disastrous epochs of Judaism.” [1] Consequently, they cannot be fully understood any more than the Apocalypse that bears the name of St. John the Apostle. Fourthly, these Apocalypses have been interpolated by the Christians. In the Book of Enoch, “the Son of Man” is also called “the Son of Woman” and “the Son of God,” thus interpolating the Church theory of Incarnation; surely, no Jewish Seer would write “Son of God.” Fifthly, it would be noticed that the Messianic doctrine is a later development of the old prophecies concerning the Last Apostle of Allah, as foretold by Jacob (pbuh) and other Prophets. It is only in the Apocrypha and the Apocalypses, and especially in the Rabbinical, writings, that this “Last Deliverer” is claimed to descend from David (pbuh) . True, there are prophecies after the Babylonian captivity, and even after the deportation of the Ten Tribes into Assyria, about a “Son of David (pbuh) ” who would come to gather the dispersed Israel. Nevertheless, these predictions were fulfilled only partly under Zorobabel - a descendant of King David (pbuh) . Then after the Greek invasion the same predictions were preached and announced, and we only we only see a Judah Maqbaya fighting with a slight success against Antiochus Epiphanes. Besides, this success was temporary and of no permanent value. The Apocalypses, which carry their visions down to the time after the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus and Vespasian, foretell “the Son of Man” who will appear with great power to destroy the Roman power and the other enemies of Israel. Twenty centuries had[1] Munuel de Litterature Juive. Nancy, 1927