The origins of Satan in Judaism
Reply #2 - July 20, 2015, 06:36 AM
That's a very interesting study of that one passage. I'm sure the longer thing of which this is an excerpt mentions that the separate stories that have been conflated to all be the modern devil (like the serpent in the garden, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Hades, and the weird goat/man hybrid that is in the modern art) weren't all originally the same, and they all got reduced down to one a lot like what was done to the Canaanite pantheon to make the modern Abrahamic god.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for I have a sonic screwdriver, a tricorder, and a Type 2 phaser.