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Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer
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- Traditions
- Jewish scripture and tradition
- Role in the tradition
- Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.
- Public attention
- Notable Wikipedia has an article about it in 9 languages.
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From Wikipedia
Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer is an aggadic-midrashic work of Torah exegesis and retellings of biblical stories. Traditionally, the work is attributed to the tanna Eliezer ben Hurcanus and his school. Modern research suggests that the text is pseudepigraphic from the Geonic period of the eighth century, written in or near the Land of Israel.
From the Wikipedia article Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer, revision 1368571461, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q847943: “literary work”.
In this study
A narrative midrash retelling Genesis and Exodus, with an account of creation and of the angels about the divine throne.
Places Michael, Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael on the four sides of the throne — the motif the pentagram ritual reorders.
Cited for 1 sourced claim here, among them correspondences of .