In Kabbalistic and earlier pseudepigraphal lore, Jophiel — Beauty of God, from Hebrew yophi joined to El — guards the Torah and illuminates the wise. The Life of Adam and Eve (as Dina) places the angel in the seventh heaven teaching seventy languages to newborn souls; the Zohar names Jophiel a Great Angel Chief commanding fifty-three legions, overseeing Sabbath Torah readings as companion of Metatron. Later folklore credits Jophiel with teaching Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Grimoire correspondences diverge sharply: Agrippa assigns Jophiel to Saturn, Paracelsus to Jupiter, and the Calendarium Naturale Magicum Perpetuum with Key of Solomon variants to the sephirah Binah — a seat more commonly held by Zaphkiel — while some angel-lists substitute Raziel for Jophiel altogether.
“Gaster's Hebrew Visions of Hell and Paradise (JRAS 1893) preserves related ascent lore; encyclopedia summaries document the Saturn/Jupiter/Binah three-way split across Agrippa, Paracelsus, and the grimoire Binah tradition.”
