[Dragaera] To Reign in Hell

[Jerry Friedman]

My impression is that in traditional Jewish interpretations
and in modern scholarship, there's no connection among
the three passages in the Hebrew Bible that traditional
Christianity takes as referring to the Devil: the snake
in the Garden of Eden, the morning star in Isaiah, and
the Accuser in Job.  The morning star symbolizes a
Babylonian king.

The Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer
looks pretty good.  It says the idea of a Revolt of the
Angels dates to the apocalyptic literature such as the
/Book of Enoch/ (last few centuries B.C.)  Those books
and early Christian writers connected Satan with the
rebellious angels and with the morning star in Isaiah.

Jerry Friedman

--- On Sat, 12/5/09, Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt at Kithrup.COM> wrote:

> From: Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt at Kithrup.COM>
> Subject: Re: [Dragaera] To Reign in Hell
> To: dragaera at dragaera.info, howard at brazee.net
> Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009, 6:56 PM
> OK.  The original bit in the
> Bible, AFAIK (I am not an expert) is
> a line from Isaiah, "How art thou fallen from heaven, O
> Lucifer, 
> son of the morning!  Then in the New Testament there
> are some
> additional mentions.  This site gives assorted
> translations and
> cross-references.
> 
> http://bible.cc/isaiah/14-12.htm
> 
> 
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