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Belial: A History

Belial stands second only to Satan in occult lore, and in some texts he is Satan himself. Baal Kadmon's Belial: A History works through the documented record rather than the folklore. Chapters move from the origins of the name through the Old Testament in its Hebrew and Greek forms, the Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha, the Book of Jubilees, the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, the Sibylline Oracles, the Martyrdom and Ascension of Isaiah, the Lives of the Prophets, the Dead Sea Scrolls, where Belial is the commander of the sons of darkness, and finally the New Testament and the occult literature that made him a goetic king. Kadmon writes for readers who want to know what the sources actually say about a figure more often repeated than researched. The volume closes with a bibliography. It belongs beside his companion study of Beelzebub for a documented pair of the great demonic names.

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