"In high art and popular culture, in religion and in spirituality, angels have been a powerful presence throughout civilization. Through young men in the Hebrew scriptures, the androgynous winged creatures of the pre-Raphaelites, and the masculine 'Angel of the North', David Alb…
How did the mythical story of fallen angels from 1 Enoch influence literature and religious thoughts during the Second Temple period? Loren T. Stuckenbruck explores aspects of this influence in some of the literature and demonstrates how it was reused and adapted to address new …
Over six hundred years before John Milton's Paradise Lost, Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels. This book brings together various cultural moments, literary genres and relevant comparanda to recover that version, from the legal and social world t…
Angels, demons and the new world
"When European notions about angels and demons were exported to the New World, they underwent remarkable adaptations. Angels and demons came to form an integral part of the Spanish American cosmology, leading to the emergence of colonial urban and rural landscapes set within a s…
Angels, demons and the new world
"When European notions about angels and demons were exported to the New World, they underwent remarkable adaptations. Angels and demons came to form an integral part of the Spanish American cosmology, leading to the emergence of colonial urban and rural landscapes set within a s…
Depicts the intricate cultural, religious and intellectual kaleidoscope of interactions between angels, demons and the heterogeneous populations of Spanish America.
This book presents a comparative work on the nature and various roles of the lesser deities, the so-called angels, in the Ugaritic texts and the Hebrew Bible.
This book presents a comparative work on the nature and various roles of the lesser deities, the so-called angels, in the Ugaritic texts and the Hebrew Bible.