BOOKS: Ancient Angels
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Ancient Angels
Conceptualizing Angeloi in the Roman Empire
by Rangar Cline
Expected: March 2011
Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 172
ISBN-13 (i)The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) has been
changed from 10 to 13 digits on 1 January 2007: 978 90 04 19453 3
ISBN-10: 90 04 19453 3
Cover: Hardback
Number of pages: xviii, 182 pp.
List price: € 93.00 / US$ 131.00
Although angels are typically associated with Judaism, Christianity,
and Islam, Ancient Angels demonstrates that angels (angeloi) were also
a prominent feature of non-Abrahamic religions in the Roman era.
Following an interdisciplinary approach, the study uses literary,
inscriptional, and archaeological evidence to examine Roman
conceptions of angels, how residents of the empire venerated angels,
and how Christian authorities responded to this potentially heterodox
aspect of Roman religion. The book brings together the evidence for
popular beliefs about angels in Roman religion, demonstrating the
widespread nature of speculation about, and veneration of, angels in
the Roman Empire
About the author(s)
Rangar H. Cline, Ph.D. (2005) in History, Pennsylvania State
University, is Lecturer in Religious Studies and History at the
University of Oklahoma and Assistant Supervisor of the Vicus ad Martis
Excavations in Italy.
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