Fallon's desire to provide every possible parallel to the elements in the enthronement scene leads to ventures into Babylonian myth, which-given his own parallels from apocalyptic and intertestamental literature have no real hermeneutic significance. This tendency to "overkill" in citing parallels leads to an argument that Sabaoth has combined features of the Jewish God, the enthronement ritual, and the apocalyptic seer as well as Mosaic and angelic (Michael) traditions. With such an expansive approach to parallels, one never gets the sense of a particular Jewish environment in which the prototype for the Sabaoth tradition came into shape. Yet, on the basis of the evidence Fallon has collected, that overriding context seems to be an early form of Jewish throne mysticism.