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paulheeney

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September 26, 2018 - 10:55 am

Does anyone have a recommendation of a book that takes a historical look at how Lucifer, Satan and the snake all came to be incarnations of the devil?

FocusMyView

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September 17, 2019 - 12:04 am

Korpel and De Moore. Adam, Eve, and the Devil. Creative and imaginative take on Ugaritic tablets that have Huaron as the snake the bites Adammu as well as nearby ANE mythology of the snake and the underworld. Has a lot of scripture (severely re-interpreted!) as well as Rabbinic tradition and apocrypha.
But the basis is how the Ugaritic myth is related to the Bible more than anything on Satan, the Devil, and Lucifer. It does give a different perspective than the usual history of their being no Satan, then the being a Satan servant of God, then there being a Devil that prowls the earth ready to consume us.

godspell

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September 17, 2019 - 5:48 am

Elaine Pagels wrote a book called Adam, Eve, and The Serpent, but that’s more about early Christianity–thing is, we know a lot more about that. The origins of the Genesis myth are a lot murkier, and basically it’s all speculation.

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