I ran across another interesting passage in Joseph and Aseneth. The work is Jewish (100BCE-66CE), it is surprising to some (even researchers) in depicting the patriarch Joseph as an emanation/Great angel in human guise. Other writers of the later second Temple period also understood Moses, Aaron, Enoch and Melchizedek and others similarly. What is interesting in relation to this thread and the op question, is the honeycomb given by the angelic being to Aseneth at her conversion to Judaism.
In this story Joseph is called the 'son of God', and the great angelic being that (spoilers) turns out to be Joseph offers Aseneth to be new by eating, "the bread of life and drink the cup of immortality",
Joesph then feeds her hneycomb that miraculously appears in her room:
4. And Aseneth went into her inner room and found a honeycomb lying on the table; and the comb was as white as snow and full of honey, and its smell was like the breath [2] of life. 5. And Aseneth took the comb and brought it to him; and the man said to her, "Why did you say, 'There is no honeycomb in my house?' And lo, you have brought me this." 6. And Aseneth said, My lord, I had no honeycomb in my house, but it happened just as you said: did it perchance come out of your mouth, for it smells like myrrh?" [3] 7. And the man stretched his hand out and placed it on her head and said, "You are blessed, Aseneth, for the indescribable things [4] of God [5] have been revealed to you; and blessed too are those who give their allegiance to the Lord [6] God in penitence, for they shall eat of this comb. 8. The bees of the Paradise of Delight [7] have made this honey, and the angels of God eat of it, and no one who eats of it shall ever die. 9. And the man stretched his right hand out and broke off a piece of the comb and ate it; and he put a piece of it [8] unto Aseneth's mouth. 10. And the man stretched his hand out and put his finger [9] on the edge of the comb that faced eastwards; and the path [10] of his finger became like blood. 11. And he stretched out his hand a second time and put his finger on the edge of the comb that faced northwards, and the path of his finger became like blood. 12. And Aseneth was standing on the left and watching everything the man was doing. 13. And bees came up from the cells of the comb, and they were white as snow, and their wings were irridescent -- purple and blue and gold; [11] and they had golden diadems on their heads and sharp-pointed strings. 14. And all the bees flew in circles round Aseneth, from her feet right up to her head; and yet more bees, [12] as big as queens, settled on Aseneth's lips. 15. And the man said to the bees, "Go, please, to your places." 16. And they all left Aseneth and fell to the ground, every one of them, [13] and died. 17. And the man said, "Get up now, and go to your place;" and they got up [14] and went, every one of them, to the court round Aseneth's tower.
We clearly see the Hebrews shared divine associations with honey. The golden/yellow life-giving food was associated with solar deities from deep antiquity. The Samson (Son of the Sun) story features honey. The manna (food of the angels) taste like honey, the resurrected Jesus eats and offers honeycomb to his disciples and here Joseph the incarnate great angel makes explicit that angelic honeycomb gives immortality.
