| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 302 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Themes in biblical narrative,
1388-3909 ;
v. 6
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Themes in biblical narrative ; v. 6.
1388-3909
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- 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 Überlegungen im Horizont des christlichen Wirklichkeitsverständnisses / Eilert Herms -- Invisible made visible : glimpses of an iconography of the fall of angels / Christoph Auffarth. |
| Summary |
The fall of the angels is one of the biblical narratives which, above all in the history of the bible 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English and German; the German-language articles have English summaries. |
| Subject |
Bibel. |
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Demonology -- History of doctrines.
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Demonology -- History of doctrines. |
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Demonology. |
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Good and evil -- Religious aspects -- History of doctrines.
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Good and evil -- Religious aspects. |
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Good and evil -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines.
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Good and evil -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Auffarth, Christoph.
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Stuckenbruck, Loren T.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fall of the angels. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004 9004126686 (DLC) 2003061091 (OCoLC)52814148 |
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Online version: Fall of the angels. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004 (OCoLC)945914856 |
| ISBN |
1429409932 (electronic book) |
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9781429409933 (electronic book) |
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9789004126688 (alkaline paper) |
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9004126686 (alkaline paper) |
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9004126686 (alkaline paper) |
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