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.

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 ...

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