The Fall of the Angels

Front Cover
Christoph Auffarth, Loren T. Stuckenbruck
BRILL, 2004 - 302 pages
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.

From inside the book

 

Selected pages

Contents

Remember the Titans
35
The Downthrow of the Dragon in Revelation 12 and
119
The Demonic Demiurge in Gnostic Mythology
148
Die Engelsturzmotive des Umm alKitàb Untersuchungen
161
Fictitious Rituals and Real
176
A Debate
192
Zur narrativen Plausibilität des Bösen
224
Das Böse Systematische Überlegungen im Horizont
236
Glimpses of an Iconography
261
List of illustrations
286
Copyright

Other editions - View all

The Fall of the Angels
Christoph Auffarth,Loren Stuckenbruck
Limited preview - 2003
The Fall of the Angels: A Sacred Poem (Classic Reprint)
UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
No preview available - 2016
The Fall of the Angels
Christoph Auffarth,Loren T. Stuckenbruck
No preview available - 2004

Common terms and phrases

according Alten ancient andere anderen Antiochus apkallu apocalyptic ascend astral Babylonian Beatific Beatific Afterlife Bedingungen biblical tradition Book of Giants Book of Watchers Böse Burkert Canaanite Cathars Christ Christian cosmic death demiurge devil divine dragon earth Effekte Egyptian eigenen Enoch Entschlossenheit Epic euhemeristic evil fall fallen angels flood Frage fragments Genesis geschaffenen Gestimmtheit Gnosis Gnostic God’s God's enemy gods Gott Götter Greek Halm Handeln heaven heavenly Hebrew Helel heretics Hesiod Hildegard of Bingen Hortus deliciarum human humankind interpretation Isaiah 14 Israel Israelite Jewish Jubilees king können kreatorischen Kronia Kronos Leiden Lucifer Macc Macht Menschen Mesopotamian motif myth narrative Nephilim Noah notion Orion Osiris passage Personen Phoenician Pseudo-Eupolemus Pyramid texts Qumran Religion royal ideology Satan Schöpfer Scivias Secret Book Selbsterschlossenheit sons spirits Spronk stars story Testament Titanomachy Titans Translation Ugaritic unserer Ursprung des Bösen Wählen Welt Wirken Yahweh Zeus

References to this book

About the author (2004)

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.

Bibliographic information

PealkiriThe Fall of the Angels
6. köide of Themes in Biblical Narrative Series
EditorsChristoph Auffarth, Loren T. Stuckenbruck
Editionillustrated
PublisherBRILL, 2004
ISBN9004126686, 9789004126688
Length302 pages
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan