Representations of Angelic Beings in Early Jewish and in Christian Traditions

Dieser Sammelband beleuchtet die Rolle der Angelologie im Judentum und Christentum in Bezug auf hermeneutische Fragen, Kosmologie, liturgische Praktiken, religiös-magische Texte, homiletische Tradition und die Interpretation und Entwicklung antiker Ideen.Loren T. Stuckenbruck/Amsalu Tefera: Introduction – Loreen Maseno: An Angel Indeed! Hagar and the Angel in Genesis 16 – Eshbal Ratzon: The Heavenly Abode of the Luminaries – Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten: Angelic Authority: Continuities and Transformation in the Angelic World of the Book of Jubilees – Loren T. Stuckenbruck: In Praise of Angels: The Case of a Wandering Liturgical Fragment – Matthias Hoffmann: Systematic Chaos or Chain of Tradition? References to Angels and 'Magic' in Early Jewish and Early Christian Literature and Magical Writings – Amsalu Tefera: Angelology of the Ethiopic Homily on Uriel (Dǝrsanä Ura'el) – Tedros Abraha: The Place of the Angels in the Mäṣḥafä Qəddase (The Book of Hallowing) and in its Andəmta – Ralph Lee: Little Known Giants Traditions in Ethiopian Literature