Customer Reviews
Exceptional - By: , 20 Nov 2003 
I have never seen so many of the angels namedin one book before. I totally enjoyed it. This book is one i will certainly keep near. This is a must for anyone remotely intrestedin angels of any description.
Too fictional - By: , 21 Jun 1999 
I found this book to be very good & 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 - By: , 18 Apr 1999 From A'albiel to Zuriel, A Dictionary of Angels (including the fallen angels) is a thoroughly comprehensive & 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' & 'The Watchers' to name but a few & 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 changesin nomenclature & orthography that angels passed through in the course of their being transferred from one language into another...' & 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, & there is enough tongue & cheek humour dotted throughout that one may read this wonderful book cover to cover. Purchase without delay!
A wonderful, informative, complete reference book. - By: , 17 Nov 1998 This book is beautifully illustrated, but the images are nothing compared to the content. I have found this book to be a great helpin research & with satisfying my curiosity. This is the one book you absolutely MUST have if you are interestedin angels -- the REAL ones.
If you are looking for an angel, you will find him here. - By: , 08 Jun 1998 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, & fictional sources. Each entry is objective & to the point. There are more names listed here thanin any other books that I have read of its kind. I recommend this book to all students of angelology.
