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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...

In 1892 E. SCHÜRER first advocated the hypothesis that this NT Jezebel was not a synagogue or church member, but the priestess of a local cult of the Oriental Sibyl named Sambêthê (Σαμβήθη). The sanctuary of this Sibyl would be the σαμβαθεῖον which is mentioned in an inscription from Thyatira, CIJ 752 (= CIG 2, 3509 = IGR 4, 1281). Schürer was well aware, though, that this word could also refer to a synagogue, like the σαββαθεῖον (varia lectio σαββατεῖον) in Josephus, Ant. 16, 164, which was
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