“... Although the figure in Aseneth and Metatron in 3 Enoch share numerous similari- ties that may be explained by their common angelic nature, two scenes in 3 Enoch exhibit more than passing similiarity to scenes in Aseneth. In 3 Enoch 46, Metatron proposes to show the visionary Ishmael "the spirits of the stars—which stand like fiery sparks around the chariot of the Omnipresent One." whereupon he shows Ish- mael a scene quite similar to the scene in Aseneth 16, where the angel instructs the bees to fly to their places: What did Metatron do? At once he clapped his hands and chased them all from their places. Immediately they flew up on wings of flame and fled to the four sides of the throne of the chariot, and he told me the name of each of them, as it is written, He counts the num- ber of the stars and gives each of them a name. [Ps 147.4] The second scene is 3 Enoch 43, which depicts the souls of the righteous that have returned to the presence of God and those that have not yet been created, to which I will return later. ...”