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Many people today think of Satan as a little red demon with a pointy tail and a pitchfork—but this vision of the devil developed over many centuries and would be foreign to the writers of the Old Testament, where this figure makes his first appearances. The earliest texts that mention the Satan—it is always “the Satan” in the Old Testament—portray him as an agent of Yahweh, serving as an...

about whom one reads in works such as Revelation. In particular, it follows the evolution of the tradition as the idea of a heavenly satan figure is brought into conversation with different aspects of the problem of evil and as this figure little by little receives the blame for all that is wrong in the world. The historiographic nature of this study distinguishes it methodologically from other sorts of inquiries into ancient religious texts. It is not my objective in the present work to construct
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