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1 Enoch 20 lists seven archangels and their duties, ending with Remiel set over those who rise. The Apocalypse of Peter takes this list and assigns the resurrection role to Uriel, who supplies soul and spirit to risen bodies.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
1 Enoch 20:8
Pseudepigrapha
1 And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. 2 Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus. 3 Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men. 4 Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries. 5 Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of mankind and over chaos. 6 Saraqâel, one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit. 7 Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim. 8 Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set over those who rise.
Apocalypse of Peter 1:14
Revelation of Peter
Early Christian
13 For all things come to pass on the day of decision, on the day of judgment, at the word of God: and as all things were done when he created the world and commanded all that is in it and it was done — so also will it be in the last days; for all things are possible with God. Therefore he says in the scripture: Son of man, prophesy upon the bones and say to the bones: bone to bone in joints, sinews, nerves, flesh and skin and hair on them, and soul and spirit. 14 And soul and spirit will the great Uriel give them at the commandment of God; for God has set him over the rising again of the dead at the day of judgment. 15 Consider the grains of wheat that are sown in the earth. People sow them as things dry and without soul, and they live again and bear fruit, and the earth restores them as a pledge entrusted to it.
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Notes and References
“... Uriel appears three times in the Ethiopic version: (a) At 4:9, where (according to the most probable interpretation) it is Uriel, described as ‘the great Uriel,’ who supplies the soul and spirit to the bodies that have been resurrected. It is then explained that ‘God has set him over the resurrection of the dead on the day of judgment.’ (b) At 6:7, it is ‘the angel of God, Uriel,’ who ‘will bring the souls of those sinners who perished in the Flood’ — who I have argued above are the demons — to the judgment. (c) At 12:5 he sets up the wheel of fire in the river of fire in which sinners are punished. Uriel appears frequently in early Jewish and early Christian literature, often listed as the third in a list of the four archangels: Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael (e.g. Apocalypse of Moses 40:2; 3 Baruch [Slavonic] 4:7; compare Greek Apocalypse of Ezra 6:1-2; compare 1 Enoch 9:1 [Greek], where he comes second; Sibylline Oracles 2:215, where he comes last; and 1 Enoch 20:1, where he comes first in a list of seven; Prayer of Joseph also implies he is one of seven archangels) ...”
Bauckham, Richard
The Fate of the Dead: Studies on the Jewish and Christian Apocalypses
(pp. 221-222) Brill, 1998
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