Franz Cumont's influential article on pagan angels in Revue de l’histoire des religions, published just over a century ago in 1915, remains the point de départ for work on that subject. The present essay offers a brief evaluation of some of its features, and then concentrates on Greek epigraphic evidence from Asia Minor in the Roman imperial period. Most of these texts were not published when Cumont wrote, or else he treated them briefly since his focus lay largely on ancient philosophical discussions about angeloi by both insiders and outsiders to the Christian movement; and geographically he ranged more widely than we have chosen to do. The main aim of the present essay, however, is to test the widely-accepted hypothesis of A.R.R. Sheppard (1980/1981) that Jewish influence on pagan notions of angeloi is visible in these inscriptions even though that influence was applied by non-Jews in a confused manner.

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小亚细亚罗马的异教天使：重新审视碑文证据

弗朗兹·库蒙 (Franz Cumont) 关于异教天使的有影响力的文章宗教历史评论，仅在一个多世纪前的 1915 年出版，仍然是出发点从事该主题的工作。本文简要评估了它的一些特征，然后集中讨论了罗马帝国时期来自小亚细亚的希腊碑文证据。这些文本中的大多数在库蒙写作时都没有出版，或者他对它们进行了简短的处理，因为他的重点主要放在古代哲学讨论上安杰洛伊基督教运动的圈内人和圈外人；从地理上讲，他的范围比我们选择的范围更广。然而，本文的主要目的是检验 ARR Sheppard (1980/1981) 广为接受的假设，即犹太人对异教徒的安杰洛伊在这些铭文中可以看到，即使非犹太人以一种混乱的方式施加了这种影响。