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The Fall of the Angels (2004) is a volume edited by Christoph Auffarth and Loren T. Stuckenbruck.

Abstract

"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."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Leiden: Brill, 2004.

Contents

• The Nephilim were on the Earth : Genesis 6:1-4 and its Ancient Near Eastern context / Ronald Hendel
• Remember the Titans! / Jan N. Bremmer
• Downfall of Helel, the son of Dawn : aspects of royal ideology in Isa 14:12-13 / Matthan Albani
• The origins of evil in Jewish apocalyptic tradition: the interpretation of Genesis 8:1-4 in the second and third centuries B.C.E. / Loren T. Stuckenbruck
• The downthrow of the dragon in Revelation 12 and the down-fall of God's enemy / Hermann Lichtenberger
• The demonic demi-urge in gnostic mythology / Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
• Die Engelsturzmotive des Umm al-Kitab: Untersuchungen zur Trägerschaft eines synkretistischen Werkes der häretischen Schia / Barbel Beinhauer-Kohler
• Black Sabbath Masses: fictitious rituals and real inquisitions / Berend Ulrich Hergemoller
• Angels on earth and forgers in heaven: a debate in the high Middle Ages concerning their fall and ascension / Christoph Auffarth
• Zur narrativen Plausibilität des Bösen / Burckhard Gladgiow
• Das Böse: systematische Uberlegungen im Horizont des christlichen Wirklichkeitsverständnisses / Eilert Herms
• The invisible made visible: glimpses of an iconography of the fall of angels / Christoph Auffarth

External links

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