Angels, a messenger by any other name in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions : 2016 proceedings volume of the Seminar in Biblical Characters in Three Traditions and in Literature / edited by John T. Greene.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Greene, John T., editor.

Conference Name:

Seminar in Biblical Characters in Three Traditions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and in Literature (2016 : Seoul, South Korea), creator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Prophets--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Congresses.

Bible.

Angels--Islam.

Angels.

Angels--Christianity.

Angels--Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 154 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

What were/are angels and what was/were their purpose(s) still agitates many readers of the many documents in which they are mentioned. This topic proved to both interest and challenge the presenters at the Seminar in Biblical Characters in Seoul, South Korea, from which this book is derived.Communication between the heavenly realms and the earth were/are at the core of the human consideration of, and openness to the existence of beings from the heavens who can and have visited us humans. Humans have constructed a taxonomy of types of what we employ with the catch-all term angels. Some are identified with warfare, others with healing, yet others with informing. Even others are associated with the role of guardian and teacher. These, however, do not exhaust the possibilities. What, apparently, humans volunteer is to acknowledge in their experiences is that extra or ultra-beings have, and continue to influence their lives and destinies.The essays contained in this volume reflect some of the thoughtful responses to this abiding concern.

Contents:

Prolegomena : angels and some of their various roles in the literature from ancient Israel, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and in literature / John T. Greene

Angels according to the commentaries of Rabbis Khuli and Kreuzer / Alisa Meyuhas-Ginio

Angels : a brief, military history / John T. Greene

Angelic mediators : Gabriel, Uriel and Rerniel in Jewish apocalypses / Lydia Gore-Jones

Angels as the son of man in the three traditions : Michael, Gabriel, and Melchizedek / J. Harold Ellens

Gabriel rising : a post-colonial-performance-criticism analysis of Gabriel figure in Daniel / Jerome Douglas

Angels of death or angels of mercy? : the biblical angels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael in literature* / Anthony Swindell

Who had lunch with Abraham in Genesis 18: 1-15? / David Z Crookes

And the angels sing : Sanctus through the ages (A Musicological Presentation) / Max Stem.

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ISBN:

1-5275-1441-2

OCLC:

1311929697