, Arthur de Bles, and R.L. Giles, Jophiel was said to be the Angel who cast
Adam and Eve out of
Paradise According to the
pseudepigraphal
Revelation of Moses, another name for Jophiel is
Dina (
Hebrew: דִּינָה
Dīnā, "Judgement"). In the text, Jophiel/Dina is described as an angel of the seventh heaven, a
Kabbalistic guardian of the Torah (and wisdom itself), who taught 70 languages to souls at the dawn of creation. The
Zohar lists Jophiel as a Great Angel Chief in charge of 53 legions who superintend
Torah-readings on the
Sabbath. Jophiel is said to be a companion to the angel
Metatron. and
Thomas Rudd likewise name Jophiel as the teacher of Shem. In the
Anglican tradition, Jophiel is recognized as an
archangel. Jophiel is often depicted in iconography holding a
flaming sword, such as the stained glasses at
St Michael's Church in
Brighton,
St Peter and St John's Church in
Kirkley,
Holy Trinity Church in
Coventry, and a mural at
St. John's Episcopal Church in
Memphis, Tennessee. Jophiel is an
Archangel of the
Kabbalah (although some systems put
Raziel in Jophiel’s place) and in several listings, including that of the early medieval theologian
Pseudo-Dionysus. The
Calendarium Naturale Magicum Perpetuum lists Jophiel as the angel of the Sephira
Binah, as do the
Key of Solomon variant "The Veritable Clavicles of Solomon," and the
Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, both latter works derived from the
Calendarium. Agrippa attributes Jophiel to
Saturn, while
Paracelsus assigns Jophiel to Jupiter. along with the
Sephira Binah instead of
Zaphkiel.
Athanasius Kircher names Jophiel as , "angel of beauty". According to
Robert Ambelain, Jophiel is in charge of the
Cherubim, particularly the
Shemhamphorasch angels Haziel, Aladiah, Lauviah, Hahaiah, Iezalel, Mehahel, Hariel, and Hakamiah. In John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, the Archangel Jophiel is depicted as the “cherubim with the swiftest wings.” == See also ==