Belial

Belial () (juga Belhor, Baalial, Beliar, Beliall, Beliel, Beliya'al) adalah sebuah istilah yang muncul dalam Alkitab Ibrani. Kata tersebut kemudian menjadi personifikasi dari iblisSee the reference to "Beliar" in The Ascension of Isaiah, at EarlyChristianWritings.com, specifically at 1:8-9, 2:4, 3:11-13, 4:2, 4:14-18, 5:1, 5:15. dalam teks-teks Yahudi dan Kristen.Michael H. Floyd (2000). Minor Prophets: Volume 2, p 46. Nahum The eater of daughters. "In late biblical times beliya'al came to designate a mythic personification of evil, and Belial thus became the name of a satanic figure... Two considerations militate against this sort of reading, one historical and the other grammatical. First, the mythic personification of Belial appears to have been a rather late development, and there is no good reason to suppose that beliya'al had assumed this meaning by the time Nahum was composed. There is no evidence of a satanic figure named Belial in biblical or extrabiblical literature from earlier than the third century BCE (T. J. Lewis, "Belial," ABD 1 :655-56), and most scholars would date the final edition of .."

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 Daftar pustaka 
 S. L. MacGregor Mathers, A. Crowley, The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King (1904). 1995 reprint: .


 Pranala luar 
 Belial entry at Jewish Encyclopedia.com
 Catholic Encyclopedia entry on Belial
 Occultopedia entry on Belial
 Belial article from the Mystica

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