"... Slavoj Žižek offers a translation of Ephesians 6:12 that, not unlike the translation techniques of the Good News Bible or The Message, he renders in “today’s language”: Our struggle is not against actual corrupt individuals, but against those in power in general, against their authority, against the global order and the ideological mystification which sustains it ... the present chapter attempts a Gramscian “preliminary detailed philological work” examining the birth and development of the archangel in ancient Judaism and Christianity, an attempt to demonstrate the conceptual and ideological unity of certain traditions previously considered unconnected. The archangel, one of an elite group of principal angels, only appears on the scene at the end or margins of the Jewish scriptures (in the books of 1 Enoch, Tobit, and Daniel), perhaps then sometime in the third century BCE, give or take some decades. Yet once the archangel entered the Jewish imaginary, he gained a secure place in Jewish and then Christian tradition ..."