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The Book of Angels : Seen and Unseen / by Stephen Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781527535435
  • 1527535436
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Book of Angels.DDC classification:
  • 291.215 23
LOC classification:
  • BL477
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources: Summary: Both collectively and individually we have a deep and abiding fascination with angels. This book explores depictions of angels in the visual arts and in scripture and associated apocryphal and mystical writings, specifically in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and Islamic, Zoroastrian and other ancient and latter-day accounts. It examines the visual clues, artistic conventions and attributes that have been set down to help us to recognise angels in their particular roles and functions. Certain writings have had a particularly influential bearing on our understanding of angels. This text focuses.
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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)2156177

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed June 17, 2019).

Both collectively and individually we have a deep and abiding fascination with angels. This book explores depictions of angels in the visual arts and in scripture and associated apocryphal and mystical writings, specifically in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and Islamic, Zoroastrian and other ancient and latter-day accounts. It examines the visual clues, artistic conventions and attributes that have been set down to help us to recognise angels in their particular roles and functions. Certain writings have had a particularly influential bearing on our understanding of angels. This text focuses.