 However, modern scholars have concluded that the "Son of Man" never constituted a title in pre-Christian Jewish tradition,, nor that it was used as a confessional title in the early Christian community.Furthermore, scholars now widely regard Jesus to be self-referential when mentioning the "Son of Man" figures in the Gospels, rather than referring to some alternative heavenly redeemer figure.Furthermore, Bousset also relied on a distinction between "Palestinian" and "Hellenistic" for his studies on early Christology that, though was widely accepted in his day, has now been rejected by modern scholars as being simplistic.