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Still, the encyclopedia proposes that the 'Asmodeus' from the Apocrypha and the Testament of Solomon are not only related somewhat to Aeshma but have similar behaviour, appearance and roles, to conclude in another article under the entry 'Aeshma', in the paragraph 'Influence of Persian Beliefs on Judaism', that Persian Zoroastrian beliefs could have heavily influenced Judaism's theology on the long term, bearing in mind that in some texts there are crucial conceptual differences while in others there seems to be a great deal of similarity, proposing a pattern of influence over folk beliefs that would extend further to the mythology itself. The Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 rejects the otherwise accepted etymological relation between the Persian 'Æshma-dæva' and Judaism's 'Ashmodai' claiming that the particle '-dæva' could not have become '-dai' and that Æshma-dæva as such-a compound name-never appears in Persian sacred texts.

Some traditions have subsequently identified Shamdon as the father of Asmodeus. The name is alternatively spelled in the bastardized forms (based on the basic consonants אשמדאי, ʾŠMDʾY) Hashmedai (חַשְמְדּאָי, Hašmədʾāy also Hashmodai, Hasmodai, Khashmodai, Khasmodai), Hammadai (חַמַּדּאָי, Hammadʾāy also Khammadai), Shamdon (שַׁמְדּוֹן, Šamdōn), and Shidonai (שִׁדֹנאָי, Šidonʾāy). The spellings Asmodai, Asmodee (also Asmodée), Osmodeus, and Osmodai have also been used. In the Zoroastrian and Middle Persian demonology, there did exist the conjuncted form khashm-dev, where the word dev was the same as daeva. It is nonetheless likely that such a form did exist, and that the Book of Tobit's 'Asmodaios' ( Ἀσμοδαῖος) and the Talmud's 'Ashmedai' ( אשמדאי) reflect it.

While the daēva Aēšma is thus Zoroastrianism's demon of wrath and is also well-attested as such, the compound aēšma-daēva is not attested in scripture. The name Asmodai is believed to derive from the Avestan *aēšma-daēva, where aēšma means 'wrath', and daēva signifies 'demon'. The figure of Asmodeus in Rennes-le-Château

Demon portrait from dictionnaire infernal