Talk:Angel

Additional references

Somewhere here, but not at hand, are Jung's Man and His Symbols, as well as various works by Joseph Campbell. The article should not address Biblical references. Indeed, are there different interpretations in different translations? Howard C. Berkowitz 20:53, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Certainly the article needs to draw on scholarly sources as it expands, but I don't quite understand why there should be a ban on any mention of passages from the Bible (or the Qu'ran, or various non-scriptural texts from various religions, all of which contain references to angels). Those texts are the only (or at least the major) source of evidence of what ancient peoples believed about angels. It seems to be analogous to an article on the U.S. system of government that was not allowed to quote from the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, or the Federalist Papers. Of course the article needs to draw (and probably predominantly) on secondary sources -- some of which may explain, among other things, the possible translation biases you suggest -- but why prohibit mention of the relevant primary sources? Bruce M. Tindall 21:07, 10 March 2011 (UTC)