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Anon., Apocalypse Of Abraham, 17.18-17.19


nanYou make the light shine before the morning light upon your creation from your face in order to bring the day on the earth.


nanAnd in your heavenly dwellings there is an inexhaustible other light of an inexpressible splendor from the lights of your face.


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1. Anon., 1 Enoch, 14.20, 106.2, 106.5 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

106.2. pregt by him and bore a son. And his body was white as snow and red as the blooming of a rose, and the hair of his head and his long locks were white as wool, and his eyes beautiful. And when he opened his eyes, he lighted up the whole house like the sun, and the whole house 106.5. fled, and came to his father Methuselah. And he said unto him: ' I have begotten a strange son, diverse from and unlike man, and resembling the sons of the God of heaven; and his nature is different and he is not like us, and his eyes are as the rays of the sun, and hi
2. Hebrew Bible, Daniel, 10.5 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

10.5. וָאֶשָּׂא אֶת־עֵינַי וָאֵרֶא וְהִנֵּה אִישׁ־אֶחָד לָבוּשׁ בַּדִּים וּמָתְנָיו חֲגֻרִים בְּכֶתֶם אוּפָז׃ 10.5. I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz;"
3. New Testament, Apocalypse, 1.14, 1.16, 2.18, 10.1 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

1.14. His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire. 1.16. He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest. 2.18. To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: "The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things: 10.1. I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.
4. New Testament, Luke, 11.34-11.36 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

11.34. The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness. 11.35. Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness. 11.36. If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.
5. New Testament, Matthew, 6.22-6.23 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

6.22. The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. 6.23. But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
6. Anon., Apocalypse of Abraham, 17.2-17.10, 17.15, 17.19, 19.4

7. Anon., Joseph And Aseneth, 15.9



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abraham Janowitz, Magic in the Roman World: Pagans, Jews and Christians (2002) 73
angels, great angel Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
angels, human-like appearance Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
angels, strong angel Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
angels Janowitz, Magic in the Roman World: Pagans, Jews and Christians (2002) 73
ascent Janowitz, Magic in the Roman World: Pagans, Jews and Christians (2002) 73
aseneth Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
beautiful, noahs features at birth Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
burning, lamps Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
canaanite Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
deification Janowitz, Magic in the Roman World: Pagans, Jews and Christians (2002) 73
eremiel Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
eyes Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
face Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
fire Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
glory Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
hair, white Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
house Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
jacob Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
jesus Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
lamps Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
lightning Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
lights Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
noah, birth of Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
qumran Janowitz, Magic in the Roman World: Pagans, Jews and Christians (2002) 73
rash shamra ugarit Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
sabbath, the Janowitz, Magic in the Roman World: Pagans, Jews and Christians (2002) 73
smith, m. Janowitz, Magic in the Roman World: Pagans, Jews and Christians (2002) 73
son of man Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
sun, as a heavenly body Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
sun, rays/beams of Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628
torches' Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 628