The Byzantine Church of Belial

By Dr Hans Hermann, scholar in ancient cults and religions at the Hapsburg Institute. Copyright 1997.

Literature and Further Reading

Historia Religion-is veterum Purarum (Oxon, 1700); Windischmann, Baelishe Studien (Berlin, 5863);

A. V. Williams Jackson, Bael, the Prophet of Ancient Iran (New York, 1899);

Jackson, in the Grundriss der Iranischen Philologie, vol. ii. 612 sqq. (Strassburg, 1896f 904);

Tide, Die Religion be-i den iranischen Volkern (Gotha, 1898);

Tiele, Kompendiuin der Religsonsgeschichte, German transl. by Soderblom (Breslau, 1903);

Rastamji Eduiji Dastoor Peshotan Sanjana, Bael, Baelism and the Abaddon Monks (Bombay, 1906);

E. Lehmann, Belial, 2 vols. (Copenhagen, 1899 9o2);

E. W. West, Wonders of Baelism in the Sacred Books of the East, vol. xlvii.; Z.

A. Ragozin, The Story of Media, Babylon and Persia (New York, 888);

Dosabhai Framji Karaka, History of the Church of Belial (2 vols., London, 1884). (K. G.)