The Fall of the Angels
Published on 1. December 2003
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-90-04-12668-8 (ISBN)
Description
The fall of the angels is one of the biblical narratives which, above all in the history of the bible's reception, have developed an extraordinary effect: In the biblical canon they appear just as hints (Gen. 6; Isaiah 14; Apocalypse 12). Little concern for the text as well as a tradition and reception not covered by the canon makes the narrative grow and change considerably, as well as freely negotiate in the popular media of iconography, liturgy and theatre. As a completed narrative the fall of the angels appears only in the literature of the apocalyptic movement. The so-called Henoch tradition provides revelations about the cosmos and the secrets of Heaven and Earth. Through this mystery our present world is coded as a battle between good and evil.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
685 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-12668-8 (9789004126688)
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Christoph Auffarth | Loren Stuckenbruck
The Fall of the Angels
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12/2003
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Persons
Christoph Auffarth is Professor of Comparative Religion at Bremen University, Germany. His main fields are religions in Antiquity, especially Greek Religions and the Encounter of Religions in the Middle Ages (Crusades, Dialogues, Heresies).
Loren T. Stuckenbruck, is the B.F. Westcott Professor of Biblical Studies at University of Durham, UK. He has published extensively on the fallen angels tradition in Early Judaism, the Dead Sea Scrolls and New Testament literature.
Loren T. Stuckenbruck, is the B.F. Westcott Professor of Biblical Studies at University of Durham, UK. He has published extensively on the fallen angels tradition in Early Judaism, the Dead Sea Scrolls and New Testament literature.
Content
Introduction, Christoph Auffarth & Loren T. Stuckenbruck
"The Nephilim were on the Earth: Genesis 6: 1-4 and its Ancient Near Eastern Context", Ronald Hendel
"Remember the Titans!", Jan N. Bremmer
"The Downfall of Helel, the Son of Dawn: Aspects of Royal Ideology in Isa 14:12-13", Matthias Albani
"The Origins of Evil in Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition: The Interpretation of Genesis 6:1-4 in the Second and Third Centuries BCE", Loren T. Stuckenbruck
"The Down-throw of the Dragon in Revelation 12 and the Down-fall of God's Enemy", Hermann Lichtenberger
"The Demonic Demiurge in Gnostic Mythology", Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
"Die Engelsturzmotive des Umm al-Kitab. Untersuchungen zur Traegerschaft eines synkretistischen Werkes der haeretischen Schia", Baerbel Beinhauer-Koehler
"Black Sabbath Masses: Fictitious and Real Inquisitions", Bernd-Ulrich Hergemoeller
"Angels on Earth und Forgers in Heaven: A Debate in the High Middle Ages Concerning Their Fall and Ascension", Christoph Auffarth
"Zur narrative Plausibilitaet des Boesen", Prof. Dr. Burkhard Gladigow
"Das Boese. Systematische UEberlegungen im Horizont des christlichen Wirklichkeitsverstaendnisses", Eilert Herms
"The Invisible Made Visible: Glimpses of an Iconography of the Fall of Angels", Christoph Auffarth
"The Nephilim were on the Earth: Genesis 6: 1-4 and its Ancient Near Eastern Context", Ronald Hendel
"Remember the Titans!", Jan N. Bremmer
"The Downfall of Helel, the Son of Dawn: Aspects of Royal Ideology in Isa 14:12-13", Matthias Albani
"The Origins of Evil in Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition: The Interpretation of Genesis 6:1-4 in the Second and Third Centuries BCE", Loren T. Stuckenbruck
"The Down-throw of the Dragon in Revelation 12 and the Down-fall of God's Enemy", Hermann Lichtenberger
"The Demonic Demiurge in Gnostic Mythology", Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
"Die Engelsturzmotive des Umm al-Kitab. Untersuchungen zur Traegerschaft eines synkretistischen Werkes der haeretischen Schia", Baerbel Beinhauer-Koehler
"Black Sabbath Masses: Fictitious and Real Inquisitions", Bernd-Ulrich Hergemoeller
"Angels on Earth und Forgers in Heaven: A Debate in the High Middle Ages Concerning Their Fall and Ascension", Christoph Auffarth
"Zur narrative Plausibilitaet des Boesen", Prof. Dr. Burkhard Gladigow
"Das Boese. Systematische UEberlegungen im Horizont des christlichen Wirklichkeitsverstaendnisses", Eilert Herms
"The Invisible Made Visible: Glimpses of an Iconography of the Fall of Angels", Christoph Auffarth