The Fall of the Angels

Biographical note Table of contents

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Book

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x, 302 pp., 12 illus.

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BRILL

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English

Biographical note

Christoph Auffarth is Professor of Comparative Religion at Bremen University, Germany. His main fields are religions in Antiquity, especially Greek Religions and the Encounter of Religions in the Middle Ages (Crusades, Dialogues, Heresies).
Loren T. Stuckenbruck, is the B.F. Westcott Professor of Biblical Studies at University of Durham, UK. He has published extensively on the fallen angels tradition in Early Judaism, the Dead Sea Scrolls and New Testament literature.

Christoph Auffarth / Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Introduction
Ronald Hendel, The Nephilim were on the Earth: Genesis 6: 1-4 and its Ancient Near Eastern Context
Jan N. Bremmer, Remember the Titans!
Matthias Albani, The Downfall of Helel, the Son of Dawn: Aspects of Royal Ideology in Isa 14:12-13
Loren T. Stuckenbruck, The Origins of Evil in Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition: The Interpretation of Genesis 6:1-4 in the Second and Third Centuries BCE
Hermann Lichtenberger, The Down-throw of the Dragon in Revelation 12 and the Down-fall of God’s Enemy
Gerard P. Luttikhuizen, The Demonic Demiurge in Gnostic Mythology
Bärbel Beinhauer-Köhler, Die Engelsturzmotive des Umm al-Kitāb. Untersuchungen zur Trägerschaft eines synkretistischen Werkes der häretischen Schia
Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller, Black Sabbath Masses: Fictitious and Real Inquisitions
Christoph Auffarth, Angels on Earth und Forgers in Heaven: A Debate in the High Middle Ages Concerning Their Fall and Ascension
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Gladigow, Zur narrative Plausibilität des Bösen
Eilert Herms, Das Böse. Systematische Überlegungen im Horizont des christlichen Wirklichkeitsverständnisses
Christoph Auffarth, The Invisible Made Visible: Glimpses of an Iconography of the Fall of Angels

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