Angels: The Concept of Celestial Beings (2007 Reiterer / Nicklas / Schöpflin), edited volume

Angels: The Concept of Celestial Beings--Origins, Development and Reception (2007) is a book by Friedrich Vinzenz Reiterer, Tobias Nicklas, and Karin Schöpflin.

Editions

Published in Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter, 2007.

Table of contents

• Angels or demons? divine messengers in ancient Egypt / B U Schipper

• Demons and benevolent spirits in the ancient Near East: a phenomenological overview, by M Hutter.

• The divine messenger in ancient Greece, Etruria and Rome, by W Speyer.

• Divine messengers and mysterious men in the patriarchal narratives of the Book of Genesis, by M Köckert.

• Moses and the Exodus-angel, by A A Fischer.

• The angel as one form of divine communication in the Balaam narrative, by E Gass.

• The angel in Samson's birth narrative: Judg 13, by E Eynikel.

• YHWH's agents of doom: the punishing function of angels in post-exilic writings of the Old Testament, by K Schöpflin.

• Satan, God, and the angel(s) in 1Chronicles 21, by P C Beentjes.

• Cherubim and Seraphim in the Bible and in the light of ancient Near Eastern sources, by F Hartenstein.

• God's interpreter: the interpreting angel in post-exilic prophetic visions of the Old Testament, by K Schöpflin.

• Angelic revelation in Jewish apocalyptic literature, by S Beyerle.

• The "work" of archangel Raphael, by I Nowell.

• The figure of the angel Raphael according to his farewell address in Tob 12:6-20, by B Ego.

• An archangel's theology: Raphael's speaking about God and the concept of God in the Book of Tobit, by F V Reiterer.

• Asmodeus: a less than minor character in the Book of Tobit: a narrative-critical study, by J E Owens.

• Angels in early Chrsitian narratives on the resurrection of Jesus: canonical and apocryphal texts, by T Nicklas.

• The angel Gabriel according to Luke 1, by H Klein. Guardians of the old at the dawn of the new: the role of angels according to the Pauline letters, by D Kurek-Chomycz and R Bieringer.

• Rivals in heaven: angels in the Epistle to the Hebrews, by G Gäbel.

• Angels, the final age and 1-2Corinthians in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls, by A Hogeterp.

• The four (or seven) archangels in the First Book of Enoch and early Jewish writings of the second temple period, by C Berner.

• Guardian angels and angelic national patrons in second temple Judaism and early Christianity, by D D Hannah.

• The great opponent: the devil in early Jewish and formative Christian literature, by S Schreiber.

• Heavenly beings brought low: a study of angels and the netherworld, by K C Bautch.

• The motif of the angels' fall in early Judaism, by J Dochhorn.

• Angels in the Dead Sea Scrolls, by C Wassen.

• Angels in the work of Flavius Josephus, by C Begg.

• Angels in pseudo-Philo, by C Begg. The conception of angels in Jewish biblical translations, by R Kasher.

• Angels and demons in the Book of Jubilees, by Jacques van Ruiten

• Angels in the magical papyri: the classic example of Michael, the archangel, by T J Kraus.

• Angels in rabbinic literature, by B Rebiger.

• Nothing can be known or done without the involvement of angels: angels and angelology in Islam and Islamic literature, by H Kassim.

• Angels in early Christian grave inscriptions, by J Dresken-Weiland.

• Angels in Orthodox religious practice and art, by M Ernst.

• The angels' comeback: a retrospect at the turn of the millenium, by B Salzdetfurth.

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