Jesus and the Angels: Angelology and the Christology of the Apocalypse of John

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

PETER R. CARRELL, Jesus and the Angels: Angelology and the Christology of the Apocalypse of John (SNTSMS 95; Cambridge/New York/Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1997). Pp. xxii + 270. $54.95.

This monograph is based on Peter R. Carrell's doctoral dissertation presented at the University of Durham under the direction of Professor James D. G. Dunn. C. studies the influence of the angelology found in OT texts as well as in Jewish and Christian apocalypses written in the period between 200 B.c. and A.D. 200 on the christology of the Apocalypse of John. He contends that the understanding of ...

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