The idea of angels is usually connected to goodness, protection, and light. Many people imagine angels as kind beings who ...

During and after the Babylonian exile, Jewish apocalyptic texts increasingly portrayed evil as personified in angelic beings opposed to divine order. Influences from Persian religious ideas and Second ...

Haunted by the war in Iraq, a depressed and faithless Gabriel is approached by the mysterious Balthazar, who recruits Gabriel to stop the evil Archangel Michael from raising an army of the dead to ...