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Elysium
- A Visual History of Angelology
Af: Ed Simon
Engelsk Hardback
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Elysium
- A Visual History of Angelology
Af: Ed Simon
Engelsk Hardback

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Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology is a gloriously illustrated overview of angels across art, religion, and literature from scholar Ed Simon, writer for The Millions. Ineffable, invisible, inscrutable—angels are enduring creatures across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and human experiences of the divine as mediated by spiritual emissaries are an aspect of almost every religious tradition. In popular culture, angels are often reduced to the most gauzy, sentimental, and saccharine of images: fat babies with wings and guardians with robes, halos, and harps. By contrast, in scripture whenever one of the heavenly choirs appears before a prophet or patriarch, they first declare, “Fear not!” for terror would be the most appropriate initial reaction to these otherworldly beings. Angels are often not what we’d expect, but it’s precisely in that transcendent encounter that something of the strangeness of existence can be conveyed.Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology is a follow-up volume to Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology, offering an account of the angelic hierarchies as they’ve been understood across centuries and cultures, and of the individual personages, such as the archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Uriel, who have marked the mythology of the West.Includes Color Illustrations
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
400
ISBN-13:
9781419767579
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
1419767577
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Udg. Dato:
23 nov 2023
Længde:
39mm
Bredde:
258mm
Højde:
198mm
Forlag:
Abrams
Oplagsdato:
23 nov 2023
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