Can't wait to get my hands on this one!
--- On Thu, 2/24/11, Caroline Tully <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Caroline Tully <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] BOOKS: Ancient Angels
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, February 24, 2011, 6:12 PM
> BOOKS: Ancient Angels
>
> From <http://www.brill.nl/product_id34379>:
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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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