In this series of articles, we seek to recover the first-century Jewish foundation of the angelic world. We know their views through glimpses given in Scripture and writings from the intertestamental times — from the close of the Old Testament to the first advent of Jesus. These books from that period aren’t to be treated as Scripture, but they do give us insight into the mindset of the Bible’s first audience. They also flesh out small glimpses we get in Scripture that would otherwise ...