Jesus in the Talmud

Notes to Chapter 5 16541. The full biblical context reads: “I am going to send an angel in front ofyou, to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.Be attentive to him and listen to his voice. Do not rebel against him, for he willnot pardon your transgression, since my name is in him” (Ex. 23:20f.).42. See the summary in Philip Alexander, “3 (Hebrew Apocalypse of )Enoch,” in OTP, vol. 1, p. 243.43. In Synopse zur Hekhalot-Literatur, § 76, Yahoel is the first of the seventynames of Metatron.44. Ryszard Rubinkiewicz, “Apocalypse of Abraham,” in OTP, vol. 1, p. 682.45. Apocalypse of Abraham 10:8 (see also 10:3); translation by Rubinkiewiczin OTP, vol. 1, pp. 693f.46. This has been suggested already by Gershom Scholem, Major Trends inJewish Mysticism, New York: Schocken, 1961 (reprint, 1995), p. 68; and seePhilip Alexander, “The Historical Setting of the Hebrew Book of Enoch,” JJS 28,1977, p. 161; idem, “3 (Hebrew Apocalypse of ) Enoch,” p. 244.47. Cf. Ganschinietz, “Iao,” cols. 709–713; Johann Michl, “Engel II( jüdisch),” in RAC, vol. 5, Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1962, col. 215, n. 102.48. Ant. 2, 276.49. Cf. m Yoma 6:2 (where, however, the priests and the people in the Templecourt could hear him pronouncing the name); m Sot 7:6 (according towhich the priests in the Temple, when reciting the priestly blessing, did pronouncethe name). See on the rabbinic evidence Ephraim E. Urbach, TheSages: Their Concepts and Beliefs, Jerusalem: Magnes, 1979, vol. 1, pp. 127–129.50. PGM XIII, 840–845, in Betz, Greek Magical Papyri, p. 191.51. Auguste Audollent, Defixionum tabellae, Luteciae Parisiorum: A. Fontemoing,1904, no. 271/19 (p. 374). See also Papyrus Berol. 9794, in Abrasax.Ausgewählte Papyri religiösen und magischen Inhalts, vol. 2, ed. ReinoldMerkelbach and Maria Totti, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1991, pp.124–125, no. 13.52. Healing in the name of Jesus is a common early Christian custom; seeActs 3:6, 16; 4:7, 10, 30; cf. Rom. 10:13. According to Acts 19:13 “some itinerantJewish exorcists tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evilspirits,” but the evil spirit responded “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who areyou?” (19:15).53. Mk. 9:38–40; see also Lk. 9:49–50.54. As in Mk. 3:15.55. Morton Smith, Jesus the Magician, pp. 114f.