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Angels: What the Bible Really Says about God’s Heavenly Host is unavailable, but you can change that!

Everyone knows that angels have wings, usually carry harps, and that each of us has our own personal guardian angel, right? We all have some preconceptions about angels from movies, television shows, and other media, but you might be surprised to know that a lot of those notions aren’t based on anything from the Bible. If you read Luke 1:26–38 and imagine the angel Gabriel standing before Mary...

are reflected in iconography from the biblical period.73 Neither is ever qualified with the term malʾāk, and so it is incorrect to think of cherubim and seraphim as angels.74 In Alice Wood’s detailed treatment of the Hebrew term in her major study on cherubim,75 she notes: Shades of meaning that are attributed to the cherubim in the biblical texts can be further accentuated by means of a comparison with the corresponding Semitic data. It is the form kurı̄bu, derived from the Akkadian karābu “to
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