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This dissertation looks at the scriptural images of angel and temple, as they occur in key works by John Damascene: on the Heresies, chapter 100 "On the Ishmaelites;" Three Treatises on the Divine Images, and on the Orthodox Faith. Angelic and temple imagery forms an important c…

This thesis presents a commentary with selected translations of Jalāl al-Dīn cAbd al- Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī's Al-Ḥabā'ik fī akhbār al-malā'ik (The Arrangement of the Traditions about Angels). The work is a collection of around 750 ḥadīth about angels, followed by a postscript (khātim…

The earliest rabbis inherited from antecedent Jewish sects and authors a theme of kinship between Israel and the Angels of heaven. This theme was prominent in the sectarian thought of Qumran (as evidenced in the Dead Sea Scrolls) and it pervaded pseudepigraphic writing in the ti…

EMET is a multi-genre novel that combines history, creation myths, and well-known literature. This excerpt contains a large portion of the full novel and follows a group of angels who fell to earth and their subsequent effects on the world as we know it. Divided into two timelin…

This dissertation demonstrated the significance and substance of the diabology of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Spurgeon believed Satan is a real, fallen, angelic being full of malice and hate who is devoted to destroying all of humanity and in particular God’s people. He employs var…