I remember a line from a Harold Bloom book (don't ask me which one), something along the lines of "The Rabbis say the names of the angels came from Babylon-- I

I remember a line from a Harold Bloom book (don't ask me which one), something along the lines of "The Rabbis say the names of the angels came from Babylon-- I suspect more than the names came from Babylon." He was intimating that the idea of angels as divine-but-not-deities God's helpers was "imported" into Judaism during the time of exile in Babylon.