title: The Fall of the Angels (Themes in Biblical Narrative)
author: Christoph Auffarth
description: <b>Christoph Auffarth</b> is Professor of Comparative Religion at Bremen University, Germany. His main fields are religions in Antiquity, especially Greek Religions and the Encounter of Religions in the Middle Ages (Crusades, Dialogues, Heresies).<br /><b>Loren T. Stuckenbruck</b>, is the B.F. Westcott Professor of Biblical Studies at University of Durham, UK. He has published extensively on the fallen angels tradition in Early Judaism, the Dead Sea Scrolls and New Testament literature.
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  For Steve
  —C. C.
  To Paula, Hunter, and River
  To family
  —W. C.
  
  And the angels which kept not their ﬁrst estate,
  but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting
  chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
  —Jude 1:6
  
  PROLOGUE
  Idris, 2007
  IT WAS NOT QUITE DAWN when Magnus Bane rode into the low clearing with
  death on his mind. He rarely came to Idris these days—that many
  Shadowhunters close together made him nervous—but he had to admit that the
  Angel had picked a pretty spot for the Nephilim’s home. The air was alpine and
  fresh, cold and clean. Pines shu�ed a�ably against one another on the bank