“... Other studies have noticed that, in 2 Enoch’s creational account, God’s wisdom and his word are also mentioned as the agents of creation. Indeed, in both recensions of 2 Enoch 30:8, the Deity commands his wisdom to create man. Like Adoil and Arukhas at the very beginning of creation, another demiurgic mediator, Sophia, is commissioned to help the Deity with the later stages of the creational process by assisting him in the creation of humankind. Scholars often see the Sophia traditions as the formative bedrock for later Jewish mediatorial developments, including the Johannine Prologue. A reference to Sophia as God’s helper in 2 Enoch 30 is important to our study because it points to the complex creational universe of the Slavonic apocalypse, which is a Jewish text that strives to accommodate several mediatorial trends. It is intriguing that in both cases (Adoil and Sophia) the demiurgic agents act as the Deity’s servants who fulfill the “commands” of their master. In 2 Enoch 30:8, the Deity narrates to the seer that he “commanded” his wisdom to create man. [...] Martin Hengel notes that in Wis 9:1 “the creative word of God and the personified Sophia appear in a parallelismus membrorum: ‘O God of my fathers, Lord of mercy who hast made all things by thy word and by thy wisdom hast formed man.’ Word and wisdom of God are here nearly identified.” ...”