I am interested in what early religions believed about angels, but I want to avoid woowoo or NewAge books on angels; I would like to read a scholarly text with references to original texts. Do you have any suggestions, please?
For each, click the link to go to the citation page and read the summary paragraph and chapter breakdown (where avail.) provided by Nielsen Book Data. I am not permitted to post it here for your convenience per the mods.
Gieschen, Charles A. 1998. Angelomorphic christology: antecedents and early evidence. Leiden: Brill. link
Keck, David. 1998. Angels & angelology in the Middle Ages. New York: Oxford. link
Sullivan, Kevin P. 2004. Wrestling with angels: a study of the relationship between angels and humans in ancient Jewish literature and the New Testament. Leiden: Brill. link
Carrell, Peter R. 1997. Jesus and the angels: angelology and the christology of the Apocalypse of John. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. link
Losekam, Claudia. 2010. Die Sünde der Engel: die Engelfalltradition in frühjüdischen und gnostischen Texten. Tübingen: Francke Verlag. link
Mohamed, Feisal G. 2008. *In the anteroom of divinity: the reformation of the angels from Colet to Milton.*University of Toronto Press. link
Bucur, Bogdan Gabriel. 2009. Angelomorphic pneumatology: Clement of Alexandria and other early Christian witnesses. Leiden: Brill. link