Abstract The angel of the nations comes into being in the context of the Old Testament, as a vicar of God, his envoy and representative, mediating between the human and the transcendent. The role of Israel in relation to other peoples is also gradually clarified in the course of the O

Abstract Medieval angels between hierarchies and history The essay’s purpose is to expose the nature of medieval debate about angels and, at the same time, to investigate the reception of 2 crucial texts for angelology over the centuries: De celesti hierarchia by Pseudo-Dionysius the

Massimo Campanini (Angeli delle nazioni) Abstract: Angels or demons: the origin of power in Islamic tradition Il saggio esplora la questione dell’origine del potere politico nella tradizione islamica a partire dalla figura dell’angelo decaduto e del suo rapporto col potere terreno. Pr

Abstract The angel of Israel and the angels of nations in Midrashic sources The essay focuses on one of the fundamental books for Jewish exegesis, namely the Bereshit Rabbà, and particularly on two episodes that concern the patriarch Ja’akov, better known as Jacob, present in Genesis:

Abstract The Angelicus principatus and the communitatis angel in the reflection of the Scholastics of the 16th and 17th centuries The article analyzes the reflections of three late Scholastic theologians (Tommaso de Vio or “Gaetanus”, Giovanni Paolo Nazari and Francisco Suárez), expos

Abstract The God of Israel’s vicarious angel: origin and necessity of a substitutive political function This paper analyzes the origins of the concept of the Angel of the Nation within the Judaic tradition. The main features and functions of the intermediary figure of the divine messe

Abstract The expression «Angels of the nations» does not appear in the Book of Revelation. Nevertheless, on the one hand, the angels operate between God and the nations, and thus all have some kind of relationship with peoples, or at least with individual humans; on the other hand, th