Year: 1999
Type: article
Abstract: The figure of the ‘angel of the LORD’ as a messenger is a familiar one throughout the Bible. But in a number of passages the angel speaks, acts, and is addressed not as a messenger, but as God himself. In some passages the text switches from angel of the LORD to God, and in others there is a juxtaposition of God and the angel of the LORD. This paper suggests that the phrase ‘angel of the LORD’ is a euphemism for God used both to create tension in the narrative and to emphasise the transcendence of Yahweh.
Source: Tyndale Bulletin
DOI: 10.53751/001c.30318
Author: Stephen L. White
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2292718304