The Fall of the Angels / / edited by Christoph Auffarth, Loren Stuckenbruck.

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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Superior document:Themes in Biblical Narrative ; 6
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2004.
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Themes in Biblical Narrative ; 6.
Physical Description:ix, 302 p. :; ill.
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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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.