“... stood as a combination of several names, that is, seventy names.46 Thus, for example, in 3 Enoch 48D:1, where Metatron’s name, “Lesser YHWH,” is men- tioned, again with allusion to Exod 23:21, “Lesser YHWH” is placed among the seventy names of Metatron.47 Jarl Fossum suggests that the references to the seventy names of Metatron might indirectly point to the function of the exalted angel as the bearer of the “ultimate” Name of God, since these seventy names might represent various aspects of God’s primary Name. Elucidating such con- nections, Fossum points to 3 Enoch 3:2, where Metatron tells R. Ishmael that his seventy names “are based on the name of the King of kings of kings,” and to 3 Enoch 48D:5, which informs us that “these seventy names are a reflection of the Explicit Name upon the Merkavah which is engraved upon the throne of Glory.”48 Fossum suggests that these seventy names originally belonged to God himself and only later were transferred to Metatron.49 ...”