Angels, a Messenger by Any Other Name in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic Traditions

Buch | Hardcover

164 Seiten

2018 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-0844-6 (ISBN)

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What were/are angels and what was/were their purpose(s) still agitates many readers of the many documents in which they are mentioned. This topic proved to both interest and challenge the presenters at the Seminar in Biblical Characters in Seoul, South Korea, from which this book is derived.Communication between the heavenly realms and the earth were/are at the core of the human consideration of, and openness to the existence of beings from the heavens who can and have visited us humans. Humans have constructed a taxonomy of types of what we employ with the catch-all term angels. Some are identified with warfare, others with healing, yet others with informing. Even others are associated with the role of guardian and teacher. These, however, do not exhaust the possibilities. What, apparently, humans volunteer is to acknowledge in their experiences is that extra or ultra-beings have, and continue to influence their lives and destinies.The essays contained in this volume reflect some of the thoughtful responses to this abiding concern.

John T. Greene is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA. During his twenty-six year career there, he lectured in the history of religions, scriptural and historical studies, and Hebrew language. From 1983 until his retirement at the end of 2006, he directed the university's Archaeology, History of Religions and Hebrew Language Summer Program in Israel based at Haifa University and the archaeological site of Et-Tell/Bethsaida, where he still serves as one of the excavation's co-directors. He is the author of The Role of the Messenger and Message in the Ancient Near East and Balaam and His Interpreters, both in the Brown Judaic Studies Series; co-editor of two anthologies with Mishael Caspi, Unbinding the Binding of Isaac and "And God Said: 'You're Fired!'": Elijah and Elisha; an anniversary volume co-edited with J. Harold Ellens entitled Probing the Frontiers of Biblical Studies; and numerous essays. Contributions related to his work in the archaeology of ancient Israel can be found in Bethsaida: A City by the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee and Cities Through the Looking Glass. Professor Greene has participated in excavation projects at Tell Gezer, Tel Halif, Gamla, and Et-Tell/Bethsaida, the latter for over twenty years. He is an active member of the Society of Biblical Literature and is convener of the Seminar in Biblical Characters in Three Traditions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), and editor of the Seminar's summer International Meetings proceedings.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.08.2018
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5275-0844-7 / 1527508447
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-0844-6 / 9781527508446
Zustand	Neuware