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From: attila1@ix.netcom.com(Libertarius)
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Subject: Re: Where did "satan" first appear?
Date: 23 Apr 1996 21:46:15 GMT
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In <Pine.SOL.3.91.960422200831.2592A-100000@minerva> "Christopher T.
Leiker" <cleiker@minerva.cis.yale.edu> writes: 
>
>Satan is originally a hebrew word, meaning "adversary." I think it's 
>first use in this fashion is in Job-- at least that's the oldest on 
>record that I know of. Recently, Elaine Pagels at Princeton has argued

>that the Christian conceptions of Satan are the product of 
>Jewish/Christian rivalries after the destruction of the Temple in
70CE. 
>Of course there's always the Prince of Evil at Qumran-- another
product 
>of inter-Jewish rivalry, as well as the dualism in Zoroastrianism. C. 


    There are passages in the OT (Tenack) where YHWH is identified as a
"satan."

    Libertarius