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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:41:12 -0500, Weland  wrote:   
      
   >Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   >> The book to read is "The celestial hierarchy" by ("Pseudo") Dionysius the   
   >> Areopagite.   
   >   
   >That's one, though he's rather late in the game of ordering the angelic   
   >ranks.  In fact, I was a bit late in naming the third century CE   
   >(Pseudo-Dionysius is fifth or sixth century CE), since even NT texts   
   >display this motif, drawing on older traditions yet.   
   >   
   >Though late, Pseudo-D was influential in later ages.  But I only meant   
   >to give a few facts, not a dissertation on the history and development   
   >of angelology in Judaism and Christianity in the ancient and medieval   
   >worlds in comparison/contrast to Near Eastern and Greco-Roman divine   
   >pantheons.   
      
   But that's the one that probably influenced Tolkien, and the other Inklings.   
      
      
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