2 Enoch 30:13
Secrets of Enoch
Pseudepigrapha
12 I conceived a cunning saying to say, I created man from invisible (spiritual) and from visible (physical) nature, of both are his death and life and image, he knows speech like some created thing, small in greatness and again great in smallness, and I placed him on earth, a second angel, honorable, great and glorious, and I appointed him as ruler to rule on earth and to have my wisdom, and there was none like him of earth of all my existing creatures. 13 And I appointed him a name, from the four component parts, from east, from west, from south, from north, and I appointed for him four special stars, and I called his name Adam, and showed him the two ways, the light and the darkness, and I told him, 14 This is good, and that bad, that I should learn whether he has love towards me, or hatred, that it be clear which in his race love me.
Date: 30 B.C.E - 70 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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The Chronicles of Jerahmeel
Rabbinic
7 God then called Gabriel and said, "Go and bring Me dust from the four corners of the earth, and I will create man from it." Gabriel went to gather the dust, but the earth drove him away and would not allow him to take any. Gabriel said, "Why, O earth, do you not listen to the voice of your Lord, who founded you upon the waters without props or pillars?" The earth answered, "I am destined to become cursed through man, and if God Himself does not take dust from me, no one else will either." 8 When God saw this, He stretched out His hand, took some dust, and created the first man on the sixth day. God created the body of man with four colors: white, black, red, and green. The bones and sinews are white, the intestines black, the blood red, and the skin greenish (livid). When the soul departs from the body, it immediately becomes livid.
Date: 1150 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... The testimonies from Midrash Rabbah, Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer and the Chronicles of Jerahmeel demonstrate that in the Jewish materials the anagram tradition was consistently interpreted as a reference to the cosmic body of the protoplast, created from one end of the universe to the other. In light of this tendency, it is possible that the tradition about the anagram found in 2 Enoch 30 also represents a reference to the cosmic body of the protoplast. This suggestion is made more plausible when one considers that the anagram tradition in 2 Enoch 30:13 follows immediately after the definition of the protoplast as a great celestial creature ... Another tradition found in chapter 30 about the creation of Adam from the seven components might also serve as an allusion to the cosmic body of the protoplast. The description found in 2 Enoch 30:8 relates that Adam’s flesh was created from earth; his blood from dew and from the sun; his eyes from the bottomless sea; his bones from stone; his reason from the mobility of angels and from clouds; his veins and hair from the grass of the earth; his spirit from the Lord’s spirit and from wind. It is possible that by such postulations the text intends to stress that the primordial Adam was the creature of macrocosmic dimensions since Adam’s creation from the seven elements refers to Adam as a microcosm, e.g. the anthropomorphic representation of the world ..."
Orlov, Andrei A.
From Apocalypticism to Merkabah Mysticism: Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha
(p. 161) Brill, 2007
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