This is for people who are seeking the truth .....
I find an interesting book professor by
Gordon Darnell Newby .... who is not Muslim and alive
It is interesting to note that the
Jews in Arabia, during the advent of Islam, were involved in
mystical speculation as well as
anthromorphizing and worshipping an angel that functions as the substitute creator of the universe. That angel is usually identified as
Metatron.
Scholar Gordon Darnell Newby notes that :
"...we can deduce that the inhabitants of Hijaz during Muhammad's time knew portions, at least, of 3 Enoch in association with the Jews. The angels over which Metatron becomes chief are identified in the Enoch traditions as the sons of God, the Bene Elohim, the Watchers, the fallen ones as the causer of the flood. In 1 Enoch, and 4 Ezra, the term Son of God can be applied to the Messiah, but most often it is applied to the righteous men, of whom Jewish tradition holds there to be no more righteous than the ones God elected to translate to heaven alive.
It is easy, then, to imagine that among the Jews of the Hijaz who were apparently involved in mystical speculations associated with the merkabah, Ezra, because of the traditions of his translation, because of his piety, and particularly because he was equated with Enoch as the Scribe of God, could be termed one of the Bene Elohim. And, of course, he would fit the description of religious leader (one of the ahbar of the Qur'an 9:31) whom the Jews had exalted."
G. D. Newby,
A History Of The Jews Of Arabia, 1988, University Of South Carolina Press, p. 59.
