Belial: When Wickedness Acquires a Kingdom

Send us Fan Mail What happens when supernatural evil acquires more than a leader? What happens when wickedness acquires a kingdom? In the third installment of Southern Demonology’s four-part exploration of the development of supernatural evil during the Second Temple period, JJ turns to Belial and the remarkable demonology preserved among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Belial did not begin as the proper name of a demon. The Hebrew term beliyya'al originally conveyed ideas such as wickedness, worthless...