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In the Babylonian Talmud they mention the gnostic deity figure "Metatron" mentioned for the first time in 3 Enoch, a gnostic writing that predates the Talmud itself.

The Talmud also contains reincarnation and purgatory doctrines, which you won't find anywhere in the Bible. This is combined with a dualist cosmology, where good and evil are equal and opposite forces, which again is found in the Talmu but not in the Bible. All this stuff, which is highly unbiblical, is inherited from various gnostic sects and Manichaeism, which were very widespread in the Middle East starting around the 2nd century AD (around the area where the Babylonian Talmud was later written). Some of this stuff was likely borrowed in turn from Zoroastrianism, which was also widespread in the region before gnosticism was.

It has absolutely nothing to do with the Jews of the Bible. The idea that any of this does come from the ancient Jews of Judea in the First Century, or from any part of the Bible, is based on sheer ignorance.

The Talmud comes from gnostic traditions, which were heresies the 3rd to 5th century AD, and is only a century or so older than Mohammadism. Mohammadism also has a lot of gnostic and Arian influences as well, making it quite similar to Talmudic Judaism, and equally as illegitimate as it. Not to mention historically illiterate.