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CONTENTS List of illustrations 13 Preface 15 List of abbreviations 29 Part One: Hebrew Backgrounds 33 1 The Old Testament 34 1. The first supernatural satan in the Hebrew Bible: The Angel of Yahweh and a talking ass 34 2. A Son of Elohim as a satan: The spy and tester of the Book of Job 46 3. A celestial satan as accuser: The trial of Joshua the High Priest in the Book of Zechariah 50 4. Revisions and translations: Satan and satans, Devil and devils 57 2 Apocryphal Works and the Dead Sea Scrolls 65 1. Sins of humans, sins of Angels: Genesis 1--11 and the Book of Enoch 65 2. Mastema/Satan and the Giant-Ghosts: The Book of Jubilees 70 3. Dueling Dualisms at Qumran: Belial, the Principle of Darkness, Lady Folly -- but no Satan 79 Part Two: The New Testament: Satan comes into his own 97 3 St. Paul, the first Christian writer 98 1. 1 Thessalonians, 1 Corinthians: Satan as tester and punisher -- and rehabilitator 98 2. 2 Corinthians, Romans: Pseudo-Angel-of-Light, due for a crushing 108 3. Other sinister figures: Belial, the God of this World, the Elements, the Powers 116 4. St. Paul and the Wisdom of Solomon: on Adam, Eve, the Serpent, and the arrival of Death 123 4 The four Gospels 140 1. The witness of the earliest Gospel: Jesus and Satan in Mark 140 2. Satan and Jesus in dialogue: Matthew's three-act drama of temptation 147 3. Luke's two books (Third Gospel and Acts): Satan in charge, and his predicted fall "like lightning" 160 4. Satan according to John: Homicidal liar, and Archon of this Cosmos 182 5 Later Epistles 193 1. Pseudo-Paul 1: 1--2 Timothy, 2 Thessalonians: Satan and/or Devil 193 2. Pseudo-Paul 2: Colossians and Ephesians: The heavenly Powers and Devil 203 3. Hebrews and Jude: Devil as the Angel of Death -- who deserves respect 211 4. Excursus: The non-Diabolical fall of the Angels in Jude and 2 Peter 219 5. Ecumenical Epistles: 1 Peter and James: Devil as lion, Devil as coward 225 6 The Apocalypse of John the Divine 234 1. Satan and the Angels of the seven churches 234 2. Dragon-Satan-Devil and his predicted ouster from Heaven 245 3. Another John, another Worldview: Devil and anti-Christs in the Epistles of John the Presbyter 263 4. Excursus: Jesus as the good Lucifer in Revelation and 2 Peter 270 7 Putting the New Testament together: A composite portrait of Satan in canonical order 277 1. Gospels and Acts 278 2. The Pauline Epistles 280 3. The other Epistles and Revelation 282 Part Three: Satan and Adam 285 8 Satan's original sin: Felling Adam 286 1. The early post-Biblical explanation: Satan fell because of Adam, Adam fell because of Satan 286 2. Satan's jealousy in the Life of Adam and Eve 298 3. The history of Iblis in the Koran 301 Part Four: The Rise of the Fallen Lucifer 307 9 Lucifer and the New Biography of Satan 308 1. Satan as the rebel Lucifer, well before Adam: The hijacking of Isaiah 14 by Origen of Alexandria 308 2. The New Biography of Satan: Re-reading the Bible with Lucifer as God's enemy 320 3. Satan and his Angels as Pagan Gods: Renouncing the Devil and his pomps 335 10 Satan and the Human Race 344 1. Mankind enslaved by Satan and redeemed (purchased back!) by Christ 344 2. Satan and the Saints: Straight man, fall guy, persistent meddler, bungling loser 348 3. Satan's last assignment: Superintendent of Hell and punisher -- right now! -- of damned souls 366 11 Theorizing Satan 386 1. Satan as a Pure Spirit: The synthesis of Thomas Aquinas 386 2. Satan and the magical malefactors: Diabolizing Sorcery 396 12 Satan in literature and art 421 1. Literary and dramatic presentations of Satan: Dante, Milton, et ceteri 421 2. Satan in the visual arts: Scary and suave 438 Part Five: Satan in the modern world 449 13 Temptation and possession 450 1. Satan as ever-present invisible Tempter: "The Devil made me do it!" 450 2. Pathetic marvels: The phenomena of Diabolical possession 456 14 Doubts and affirmations 462 1. Satan contextualized and demythified: The Reformed Reformer Friedrich Schleiermacher takes a hard look at the Bible 462 2. The many lives of Satan in modern times 473 15 Summary and conclusion 484 Index 000
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Devil -- Biblical teaching.