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All subjects (including unvalidated):

subject	book bibliographic info
guard/guardian	Stuckenbruck (2007) 440, 441, 445
guardian	Humphreys (2018) 55, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 192, 197, 200, 213, 214, 222, 229, 235, 236, 239, 241, 248, 258, 314, 434, 465, 902, 903, 930, 1058, 1229
guardian, angel	Huttner (2013) 129, 130, 155 Poorthuis and Schwartz (2014) 203
guardian, apollodoros son of pasion, and	Humphreys (2018) 97, 221, 226, 227
guardian, as archangel	Allison (2018) 267, 277, 320, 396, 414
guardian, deity	van der EIjk (2005) 239
guardian, god, as	Jonquière (2007) 61, 69, 73, 144, 146, 149, 150, 152, 169, 263, 264
guardian, matrimony, approval of	Monnickendam (2020) 37, 115, 132, 164
guardian, moses, steward and	Geljon and Runia (2019) 23, 49, 131
guardian, of alcibiades, pericles	Brule (2003) 119
guardian, of censor, as morality	Mueller (2002) 143, 169, 170
guardian, of crossroads, hermes	Miller and Clay (2019) 300, 328
guardian, of poetic memory, muse, as	Verhelst and Scheijnens (2022) 29
guardian, of property	Schiffman (1983) 116, 120, 121, 122, 124
guardian, of zeus horkios oaths	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014) 28, 99, 287, 291, 295
guardian, potency/power, dunamis, world soul as δύναμις‎	d, Hoine and Martijn (2017) 124, 127, 128, 129
guardian, spirits	Luck (2006) 240
guardian, temple, neokoros, municipal office	Marek (2019) 162, 540
guardian, temple, neokoros, rank of a city or koinon as a center of imperial cult	Marek (2019) 417, 420, 477, 478, 479, 518
guardian, widow/widower	Humphreys (2018) 95, 96, 121, 208
guardian, zeus, family	Malherbe et al (2014) 495
guardian/allotted, daemon	Joosse (2021) 67, 224
guardian/s, angel/s	Tefera and Stuckenbruck (2021) 131, 132, 168
guardians	Huebner (2013) 23, 77, 98, 105, 112, 130, 137
guardians, and overseers, daemons	Schibli (2002) 342, 347, 359
guardians, angels	Stuckenbruck (2007) 439, 440, 441, 442
guardians, damage/desecration in this entry, lions as	Marek (2019) 164
guardians, demosthenes	Humphreys (2018) 102, 120, 127, 248, 470, 1040
guardians, in the afterlife	de Jáuregui et al. (2011) 182, 215
guardians, of gates and tombs, lions	Marek (2019) 164
guardians, of humankind, demons, as	Hoenig (2018) 202, 206
guardians, of laws	Schibli (2002) 223, 230
guardians, of the laws, laws	Ebrey and Kraut (2022) 543
guardians, see also gorgon, kerberos, underworld, confrontation with, sphinx	Edmonds (2004) 35, 47, 61, 112, 124
guardians, the	Wilson (2010) 94, 133, 311

List of validated texts:

4 validated results for "guardian"

1. Hebrew Bible, Psalms, 91.11 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Angels, Guardians • Archangel, Guardian, as • Guard/Guardian

Found in books: Allison (2018) 277; Stuckenbruck (2007) 441

91.11. כִּי מַלְאָכָיו יְצַוֶּה־לָּךְ לִשְׁמָרְךָ בְּכָל־דְּרָכֶיךָ׃''. None

91.11. For He will give His angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways.''. None

2. Anon., 1 Enoch, 100.5 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Angels, Guardians • Archangel, Guardian, as • Guard/Guardian

Found in books: Allison (2018) 277; Stuckenbruck (2007) 439, 440, 441, 442

100.5. And over all the righteous and holy He will appoint guardians from amongst the holy angels To guard them as the apple of an eye, Until He makes an end of all wickedness and all sin, And though the righteous sleep a long sleep, they have nought to fear.''. None

3. New Testament, Hebrews, 1.12, 1.14 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Angel/s, Guardian/s • Archangel, Guardian, as • guardian angel,

Found in books: Allison (2018) 277; Huttner (2013) 129; Tefera and Stuckenbruck (2021) 132

1.12.
1.14. οὐχὶ πάντες εἰσὶν λειτουργικὰ πνεύματα εἰς διακονίαν ἀποστελλόμενα διὰ τοὺς μέλλοντας κληρονομεῖν σωτηρίαν;''. None

1.12. As a mantle you will roll them up, And they will be changed; But you are the same. Your years will not fail."' "
1.14. Aren't they all ministering spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation? "'. None

4. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • daemons, guardians and overseers • demons, as guardians of humankind

Found in books: Hoenig (2018) 202; Schibli (2002) 342

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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