Angel Veneration and Christology: A Study in Early Judaism and in the Christology of the Apocalypse of John

The public worship of the risen Christ as depicted in John’s Apocalypse directly contradicts the guidingangel’s emphasis that only God should be worshiped (Revelation 19:10; 22:8-9). In Angel Veneration and Christology, Loren Stuckenbruck explores this contradiction in light of angelveneration in Early Judaism.Stuckenbruck surveys a wide variety of Jewish traditions related to angelic worship and discovers proscriptions against sacrificing toangels; prohibitions against making images o…