The Fall of the Angels /

The Fall of the Angels /

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 r...

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Other Authors: Stuckenbruck, Loren (Editor), Auffarth, Christoph (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2004.

Series: Themes in Biblical Narrative ; 6.
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.

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Demonology > History of doctrines.
Good and evil > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines.
Good and evil > Religious aspects > History of doctrines.

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Call Number: BL480

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Table of Contents:
  • 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-Kitāb. Untersuchungen zur Trägerschaft eines synkretistischen Werkes der häretischen Schia", Bärbel Beinhauer-Köhler
  • "Black Sabbath Masses: Fictitious and Real Inquisitions", Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller
  • "Angels on Earth und Forgers in Heaven: A Debate in the High Middle Ages Concerning Their Fall and Ascension", Christoph Auffarth
  • "Zur narrative Plausibilität des Bösen", Prof. Dr. Burkhard Gladigow
  • "Das Böse. Systematische Überlegungen im Horizont des christlichen Wirklichkeitsverständnisses", Eilert Herms
  • "The Invisible Made Visible: Glimpses of an Iconography of the Fall of Angels", Christoph Auffarth.