I'm in the middle of writing a piece on Jesus and angels and it suddenly
struck me that I know little about the first century Jewish concept(s)
of the origin(s) of angels.
I would assume that this is something alluded to or stated in the
Pseudepigrapha, the DSS, and/or in Rabbinic literature.
Jeffrey,
Look at Jubilees 2: angels created on the first day. It seems this comes
from an interpretation of the rel'n between Gen 1.1 and 2.1. Gen 2.1 says
and the heavens and earth and *all their hosts* were completed; and since
the latter two were created on the first day according to Gen 1,
