Those beautiful white and gold angels you see on Christmas trees were originally monsters. At least, that is the claim made by scholar Esther Hamori in her book God’s Monsters. Hamori writes that ...

Since the days of the Dead Sea Scroll and before, angels have captured the hearts and minds of people everywhere. Modern media is lousy with them! Supernatural, Lucifer, Good Omens—they’re everywhere.

Last week a priest appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, at the scene of a car crash in Missouri last week. He prayed with the victim, Katie Lentz, and then vanished without so much as leaving his name.

In this edifying outing, Hamori (Women’s Divination in Biblical Literature), a professor at the Union Theological Seminary, diligently combs through the Bible for “monsters” and “monstrous acts” that ...

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