The Attribution of Gabriel

A reference library on the archangel Gabriel in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic sources: where the texts name him, who has studied him, how he is pictured, and who honors him.

גבריאלHebrewGod is my warrior
ΓαβριήλGreekman of God
جبريلArabic, Jibrīlthe angel of revelation
GabrielEnglishstrength of God

Sources give the name's meaning in different ways: “God is my warrior” (University of Arizona essay), “man of God” (Jewish Encyclopedia), and “strength of God” (devotional sources). The glosses above follow those sources.

Primary texts

The passages where Gabriel is named or discussed. Short quotations are from the King James Version or a published Qur’an translation; everything else is paraphrase.

Scholarship and reference

Books, articles, dissertations, and encyclopedia entries. The kind of source is labeled on each entry, because a peer-reviewed article, a doctoral dissertation, and a blog essay carry different weight.

Symbols and imagery

How each tradition describes or depicts Gabriel, with the source for each item.

Patronage and feast days

Groups and devotion

No scholarly society devoted only to Gabriel turned up in the search. These are devotional, fraternal, and fictional groups connected to him.

About this library

This is a working reference, started on 10 October 2026 from a first round of web searches. It is not a complete bibliography.

  • Confirmed entries were found in search results and link to the page where they were found.
  • From memory entries are well-known works recalled without a source check. Verify author, title, publisher, and year before citing them.
  • Some linked pages are reference summaries or blogs, not primary scholarship. The kind of source is labeled.
  • The Bray dissertation argues from an explicitly Christian confessional position and says so in its own abstract.

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