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The angels mentioned in the older books of the Hebrew Bible are without names.

Indeed, rabbi Simeon ben Lakish of Tiberias ( 230 – 270 ), asserted that all the specific names for the angels were brought back by the Jews from Babylon, and some modern commentators would tend to agree.

Of the seven Archangels in the angelology of post-Exilic Judaism, only two, Gabriel, and Michael, are mentioned by name in the Scriptures consistently recognised by both the post-Jamnia Jewish tradition and the books common to both the Catholic biblical canon and the smaller Protestant one.

Raphael features prominently in the deuterocanonical book Tobit ( initially accepted by both the Jewish and Christian canons, but removed from the Jewish canon in late antiquity and rejected by the Protestant reformers in the 17th century ).

The Book of Tobit is accepted as scriptural by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Oriental Orthodox Church.