Encyclopaedia Britannica's reference entry on the seraph, the six winged being described in Isaiah's temple vision whose threefold cry of holy, holy, holy became a fixed formula in later Jewish and Christian liturgy.
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Reliability Tier2
Encyclopaedia Britannica's reference entry on the seraph, published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., the middle tier reflecting an edited general reference work rather than a specialist biblical studies monograph. It is reliable for the standard facts of the seraph's appearance in Isaiah's vision and its later liturgical use, and less reliable for deeper questions of its ancient Near Eastern background, which a dedicated scholarly source would need to settle. NotesA general reference encyclopedia with editorial staff and a long institutional record, continuously revised rather than dated to a single print year. Reliable for the seraph's description in Isaiah and its later career in Jewish and Christian liturgical texts.
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AuthorThe Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
PublisherEncyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
URLhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/seraph
Source Typereference
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