medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Try the "Book of the Watchers," an ancient compilation that has been
included as the opening section of the anthology we now call "I Enoch."
It is available in numerous places on the net (google it) and reports
traditions about the "fall of the angels."
Bob Kraft, emeritus UPenn
Revd Gordon Plumb wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Apart from the reference in Luke there is also II Peter 2:4 ""God did
> not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and
> committed them to pits of nether gloom to be kept until judgement".
> A good place to start is David Keck's "Angels and Angelology in the
> Middle Ages", New York, Oxford UP, 1998.
> Gordon Plumb
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