Originally published 1995 | Editor Karel van der Toorn | |
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Similar The Early History of God, The Origins of Biblical Monotheism, The Context of Scripture, Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, Ancient Near Eastern T | ||
The Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (DDD) is an academic reference work edited by Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking and Pieter W. van der Horst which contains academic articles on the named gods, angels, and demons in the books of the Hebrew Bible, Septuagint and Apocrypha, as well as the New Testament and patristic literature.
The first edition (Brill) appeared in 1995 and was chosen by Choice magazine of the American Library Association as Best Reference Work of 1996. The second extensively revised edition (Eerdmans, 960pp) appeared in 1999. An electronic edition appeared in 2001.
Advisors included Hans Dieter Betz, André Caquot (1923–2004), Jonas C. Greenfield (1926–1995), Erik Hornung Professor of Egyptology at Basel University, Michael E. Stone of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Manfred Weipert of the University of Heidelberg.
Some of the articles overlap with articles in other major academic reference works such as the Anchor Bible Dictionary (ABD), and may be written from different perspectives. For example, the article on Lilith in ABD gives a very different perspective on surviving Mesopotamian evidence than DDD.