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Saturday 25 April 2020

Opinion: Archangel Names

How did the archangel names come to be aligned across scriptures written thousands of years apart in different languages? I theorise that maybe Daniel had the Book of Enoch and knew Babylonian languages well enough to translate it. He might have referred to it in his writings when spelling archangel names Gabriel and Michael. If he translated the Book of Enoch from Babylonian languages into Hebrew and Aramaic others such have Tobit and Esdras might have referred to it in their spellings of archangel names which though possibly having variety of spellings (standardising spellings is a modern phenomenon not so common in ancient times) would be closely aligned enough to enable later translators and scholars to recognise the correspondences.