Herein we continued, from part 1, part 2, a series regarding paranormal entities in text generally termed the Apocrypha, Deutero Canonical, Pseudepigrapha, Gnostic Texts, etc. (see my article on the Apocrypha here). The quotations are of those sections within the text that refer to Angels, Cherubim, Seraphim, Devil, Satan, demons, serpent and dragon. The point is not to elucidate these references but to provide relevant partial quotations and citations.
1 Maccabees – after 134 BC to before 63 BC
7:41 When the messengers from the king spoke blasphemy, thy Angel went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand of the Assyrians.
2 Maccabees – no earlier than 100 BC to as late as 50 AD 11:6, 22-23 When Maccabeus and his men got word that Lysias was besieging the strongholds, they and all the people, with lamentations and tears, besought the Lord to send a good Angel to save Israel…
And he called upon him in these words: “O Lord, thou didst send thy Angel in the time of Hezekiah king of Judea, and he slew fully a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Sennacherib. So now, O Sovereign of the heavens, send a good Angel to carry terror and trembling before us.
3 Maccabees – estimations run from 100 BC to between 25-24 BC
6:18 Then the most glorious, almighty, and true God revealed his holy face and opened the heavenly gates, from which two glorious Angels of fearful aspect descended, visible to all but the Jews.
4 Maccabees – between 1st century BC and 1st century AD
4:10 …and while Apollonius was going up with his armed forces to seize the money, Angels on horseback with lightning flashing from their weapons appeared from heaven, instilling in them great fear and trembling.
7:11-12 For just as our father Aaron, armed with the censer, ran through the multitude of the people and conquered the fiery Angel, so the descendant of Aaron, Eleazar, though being consumed by the fire, remained unmoved in his reason.
In the next segment, we will consider Bel and the Dragon, Prayer of Azariah, Song of the Three Holy Children, Susanna aka Shoshana, Letter of Jeremiah aka Epistle of Jeremy, additions to the Book of Esther, and the Book of the All-Virtuous Wisdom of Joshua ben Sira aka Wisdom of Sirach aka Sirach aka Siracides aka Book of Ecclesiasticus.