3 Enoch

Metatron’s names are conceived of as ‘based upon’ the Divine Name xkar’ e£oxnv, the Tetragrammaton, which simply means that the different names contain the YHWH or YaH as component part. This is an exclusive feature of the Metatron-picture, as is also the name ‘the Lesser YHWH'. based upon the name Metatron. This strange expression which is attested only in A occurs also Hek. Zot. The expression might, however, also refer to variants of the name Metatron, e.g. Cf. above. my King calls me Youth (Na‘ar). The name Na‘ar is regularly ascribed to Metatron; cf. on ch. xlviii D r. It is also applied to the Prince of the World, TB. Yeb. 16 b. The derivations and explanations of the name differ. The present section (cf. iv. 1, 10), as has already been pointed out, explains it from Metatron’s identity with Enoch. In TB. The Tosaphoth on 8 | THE HEBREW BOOK OF ENOCH [CH. IV