Biblical Hebrew Forum

["George Athas" <gathas AT mail.usyd.edu.au>]

Ian Hutchesson wrote:

> Does anyone have any idea why all the angels seem to have Elohistic
> theophoric names?

Perhaps it stems back to the El traditions which see El as the president of 
the gods who
has various other lesser gods doing his bidding or doing their own thing with 
El's
sanction? Cf. Psalm 82.

Best regards,
George Athas
 Dept of Semitic Studies,
 University of Sydney
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