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Dictionary of deities and demons in the Bible DDD / Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, Pieter W. van der Horst, editors.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill ; Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, 1999.Edition: 2nd extensively rev. edDescription: xxxviii, 960 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0802824919
  • 9780802824912
  • 9004111190
  • 9789004111196
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 220.3 21
LOC classification:
  • BS680.G57 D53 1999
NLM classification:
  • BS 680.G57 D53 1999
Other classification:
  • 11.30
  • BC 1100
  • BC 1120
Online resources:
Contents:
Consultants -- General -- Biblical Books (including the Apocrypha) -- Pseudepigraphical and Early Patristic Works -- Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Texts -- Targumic Material -- Periodicals, Reference Works, and Series -- List of Entries -- Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible.
Review: "The Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible is the single major work of reference on the gods, angels, demons, spirits and semi-divine heroes whose names occur in the biblical books. First published in 1995 and chosen by Choice as Best Reference Work of 1996, it is now republished in a new extensively revised edition. 30 entries appear for the first time in the new edition, while more than 100 others have been brought up to date with the latest state of research. Arranged in the order of the Latin alphabet, the more than four-hundred names are those found in the books of the Hebrew and the Greek Bible, Old and New Testament, including the Apocrypha. There are entries on divine names recognized as such by the biblical authors; divine names in theophoric toponyms and anthroponyms; secular terms which occur as divine names in neighbouring civilizations; conjectural divine names, at times based on textual emendation, proposed by modern scholarship; and humans who acquired a semidivine status in tradition."--Jacket.
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) BS 680 .G57 D53 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 12795

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Consultants -- General -- Biblical Books (including the Apocrypha) -- Pseudepigraphical and Early Patristic Works -- Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Texts -- Targumic Material -- Periodicals, Reference Works, and Series -- List of Entries -- Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible.

"The Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible is the single major work of reference on the gods, angels, demons, spirits and semi-divine heroes whose names occur in the biblical books. First published in 1995 and chosen by Choice as Best Reference Work of 1996, it is now republished in a new extensively revised edition. 30 entries appear for the first time in the new edition, while more than 100 others have been brought up to date with the latest state of research. Arranged in the order of the Latin alphabet, the more than four-hundred names are those found in the books of the Hebrew and the Greek Bible, Old and New Testament, including the Apocrypha. There are entries on divine names recognized as such by the biblical authors; divine names in theophoric toponyms and anthroponyms; secular terms which occur as divine names in neighbouring civilizations; conjectural divine names, at times based on textual emendation, proposed by modern scholarship; and humans who acquired a semidivine status in tradition."--Jacket.

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