Narkissos.....About the role of angelology, also note the Gospel of the Hebrews, fr. 1 which claims that "the good Father summoned a mighty power in heaven, which was called Michael, and entrusted Christ to the care thereof. And the power came into the world and it was called Mary, and Christ was in her womb seven months". Thus some Jewish-Christians viewed the Virgin Mary as the incarnation (or earthly life) of the archangel Michael. Another interesting tidbit is the baptism of Jesus in the Gospels, which describe the descent of the "Spirit" (Mark 1:9-10), the "Spirit of God" (Matthew 3:13-17), the "Holy Spirit" (Luke 3:21-22; John 1:29-34) in the form of a dove. After the descent of the Spirit, a voice in heaven declares "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased". But what is being referred to -- the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, or Jesus? This ambiguity may have contributed also to an identification of the Son with the Spirit. The original account in Mark said that the Spirit "descended on him," Luke says the same thing, Matthew similarly says that the Spirit "alighted on him," John says that the Spirit descended and then "remained on him," but the Gospel of the Ebionites distinctively says that the Spirit "descended and entered into him". This specificity, based in an adoptionist view of Jesus becoming divine at his baptism, would suggest that the one being declared the Son was both Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
There is some more stuff I forgot to mention from the synoptic gospels that identify Jesus with heavenly Wisdom. Matthew 8:20/Q 9:58 says: "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head". This saying recalls the notion of Wisdom having no place to dwell until God assigns her a new place (cf. Sirach 24:6-7; 1 Enoch 42:2). In Proverbs 8:17, Wisdom says that "those who seek me diligently find me" and Wisdom 6:12 claims that Wisdom "is found by those who seek her," and all this recalls Matthew 7:7/Q 11:9-13 where Jesus says "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek and you will find," and John 1:41, 45; 7:33-34; 8:21-22; 13:13; 20:15 repeatedly designates Jesus as the one people are seeking and finding. Even more striking is the following parallel:
Proverbs 1:24-28: "Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares; at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech: 'How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge? If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you. But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand, since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke, I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you, when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you. Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me.' "Matthew 11:16-19/Q 7:31-2: "To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other: 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not cry'. For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon. 'The Son of Man came eating and drinking,' and you say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.' But Wisdom is proved right by all her children".
John 7:33-34: "Still a short time I shall be with you, and I am going to the one who sent me. You will seek me and not find me, and where I am you cannot come".
Matthew again uses feminine imagery (e.g. "her children") to link Jesus with Wisdom. Aside from a several verbal parallels, there is also a commonality of theme; Wisdom is being rejected just as the Son of Man is being rejected. Compare also Matthew 12:42/Q 11:31: "The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and now someone greater than Solomon is here". Solomon's wisdom was in Jewish legend the ultimate in human wisdom; the one greater in wisdom than Solomon would naturally be Wisdom herself. And here are more allusions in the passage from Colossians:
Wisdom 1:6-7, 14; 7:26, 9:1: "Wisdom is a spirit, a friend to man....The spirit of the Lord indeed fills the whole world, and she holds all things together and knows every word that is said...For he created all things that they might exist, the created things of the world to have health in them....She is a reflection of the eternal light, untarnished mirror of God's active power, image of his goodness....God of our ancestors, Lord of mercy, who by your Word have made all things, and in your Wisdom have fitted man".Colossians 1:15-18: "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence."
I'm sure there are many other examples.