Since Renaissance times, churches have tended to depict angels as blonde white kids with fluffy wings, but no such characters ...

Hamori, a scholar of the Jewish and Christian scriptures, demonstrates how angels in the biblical tradition destroy entire towns, unleash plagues, lead armies, and sometimes wield swords.

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 ...

But do you have this year's must-have festive tree topper – a biblically accurate angel? Yep, I hate to break it to you, but the bible does not feature angels that look like winged choirboys.