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Shooting missiles at American soldiers shouldn’t go unpunished.
February 18, 2021
The Development of the Archangel Gabriel in Jewish Lore
The harsh one.
As the scholar Joseph Dan has pointed out, the Hebrew Bible has many names for God, but no proper names for angels—with the exception of the book of Daniel, likely its least ancient part. In one of his visions, Daniel reports seeing an angelic figure he identifies as Gabriel. Gabriel the archangel plays a greater role in the apocryphal book of Enoch, and is known to Christians from the first chapter of Luke, and to Muslims as Allah’s messenger to Mohammad. But Jews too developed their own lore about this supernatural being, as Chen Malul writes:
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The Development of the Archangel Gabriel in Jewish Lore
The harsh one.