A Dictionary of Angels

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Exceptional - Rated
I have never seen so many of the angels named in one book before. I totally enjoyed it. This book is one i will certainly keep near. This is a must for anyone remotely intrested in angels of any description.

Too fictional - Rated
I found this book to be very good and thorough, but too much of it's information is fictional. A lot of the references are from Paradise Lost, or Faust, etc. NOT real sources, but fictional figments of imagination. You must separate the gold from the dross throughout the whole book.

For the researcher, a first class read - Rated
From A'albiel to Zuriel, A Dictionary of Angels (including the fallen angels) is a thoroughly comprehensive and well researched text with derivations stemming from sources as diverse as Milton's Paradise Lost to Mather's Greater Key of Solomon. Detailed appendices cover such topics as 'The Angelic Script', 'The Orders of the Celestial Hierarchy', 'The names of Metatron' and 'The Watchers' to name but a few and the thorough bibliography is almost as valuable as the book itself. To the uninitiated, A Dictionary of Angels may at first seem overwhelming, such is it's scale, but Davidson has certainly attained his desire to 'hack... through the the maze of changes in nomenclature and orthography that angels passed through in the course of their being transferred from one language into another...' and on the whole shared appellations are highlighted accurately enough, the exceptions I have found not worthy of mention here. Especially useful are the references to source literature held by each entry. Not all of this is heavy theological stuff, however, and there is enough tongue and cheek humour dotted throughout that one may read this wonderful book cover to cover. Purchase without delay!

A wonderful, informative, complete reference book. - Rated
This book is beautifully illustrated, but the images are nothing compared to the content. I have found this book to be a great help in research and with satisfying my curiosity. This is the one book you absolutely MUST have if you are interested in angels -- the REAL ones.

If you are looking for an angel, you will find him here. - Rated
From Michael to Lucifer, the Seraphim to the Nephilim, this text alphabetically catalogs the spiritual entities we call angels. Davidson does a tremendous job of summarizing the varied interpretations of angelic lore from Biblical, non-canonical, and fictional sources. Each entry is objective and to the point. There are more names listed here than in any other books that I have read of its kind. I recommend this book to all students of angelology.