"... A similar change of the visionary’s identity might be discernible in the Exagoge, where the already mentioned designation of Moses as xenos occurs. Besides the meanings of “friend” and “guest,” this Greek word also can be translated as “stranger.” If the authors of the Exagoge indeed had in mind this meaning of xenos, it might well be related to the fact that Moses’ face or his body underwent some sort of transformation which altered his previous physical appearance and made him appear as a stranger to Raguel. The tradition of Moses’ altered identity after his encounter with the Kavod is reflected not only in Exodus 34 but also in Pseudo-Philo’s Biblical Antiquities 12:1, when the Israelites failed to recognize Moses after his glorious metamorphosis on Mount Sinai ... In this account [2 Enoch 34] the Torah is initially given by Enoch-Metatron to Moses and then passed through the chain of transmission which eventually brings this revelation into the hands of the group designated as the Men of Faith ... Scholars have previously noted that this succession of the mystical tradition recalls the chain of transmissions of the oral law preserved in Pirke Avot, the Sayings of the Fathers, Mishnah Avot 1:1 ..."