TY - BOOK AU - Greene,John T. TI - Angels, a messenger by any other name in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions SN - 9781527514416 AV - BL477 .A54 2018eb U1 - 291.215 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing KW - Angels KW - Christianity KW - Islam KW - Anges KW - Christianisme KW - Ancient history: to c 500 CE KW - bicssc KW - Biblical archaeology KW - History of religion KW - RELIGION KW - Comparative Religion KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Conference papers and proceedings KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - 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 iden UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1856792 ER -