Abaddon
From Place of Destruction to Angel of the Abyss
Abstract
The Hebrew term ʾăbaddôn traces one of the most disciplined and documentable arcs in the biblical canon: from a purely topographical designation for the underworld in Israel’s wisdom literature, through a personifying threshold in the poetry of Job, through a robust Second Temple development in the Dead Sea Scrolls, pseudo-Philo, and the Enoch t…
