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The fall of the angels / edited by Christoph Auffarth and Loren T. Stuckenbruck.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Themes in biblical narrative 1388-3909 ; v. 6.
- Themes in biblical narrative, 1388-3909 ; v. 6
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Demonology--History of doctrines.
- Good and evil--Religious aspects--History of doctrines.
- Good and evil--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.
- Good and evil--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Good and evil--Religious aspects.
- Demonology.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 302 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English and German; the German-language articles have English summaries.
- Summary:
- Fall of the Angels focuses on a biblical tradition whose significance has been recognised, elaborated and explored in literature and art outside the Bible. Its extensive influence on religion and culture during the last two millenia is reflected in the wide variety of interpretations of this tradition among communities as they came to terms with religious identity in the face of opposition.
- Contents:
- The Nephilim were on the Earth: Genesis 6:1-4 and its Ancient Near Eastern Context / Ronald Hendel 11
- Remember the Titans! / Jan N. Bremmer 35
- The Downfall of Helel, the Son of Dawn: Aspects of Royal Ideology in Isa 14:12-13 / Matthias Albani 62
- The Origins of Evil in Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition: The Interpretation of Genesis 6:1-4 in the Second and Third Centuries B.C.E. / Loren T. Stuckenbruck 87
- The Down-throw of the Dragon in Revelation 12 and the Down-fall of God's Enemy / Hermann Lichtenberger 119
- The Demonic Demiurge in Gnostic Mythology / Gerard P. Luttikhuizen 148
- Die Engelsturzmotive des Umm al-Kitab. Untersuchungen zur Tragerschaft eines synkretistischen Werkes der haretischen Schia / Barbel Beinhauer-Kohler 161
- Black Sabbath Masses: Fictitious Rituals and Real Inquisitions / Bernd-Ulrich Hergemoller 176
- Angels on Earth and Forgers in Heaven: A Debate in the High Middle Ages Concerning Their Fall and Ascension / Christoph Auffarth 192
- Zur narrativen Plausibilitat des Bosen / Burkhard Gladigow 224
- Das Bose. Systematische Uberlegungen im Horizont des christlichen Wirklichkeitsverstandnisses / Eilert Herms 236
- The Invisible Made Visible: Glimpses of an Iconography of the Fall of Angels / Christoph Auffarth 261.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004126686
- OCLC:
- 52814148
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