Job
The Book of Job
Good brief introduction to book of Job (from the Britanica
Online.)
This is the first time we meet Satan in the Bible (the "serpent" of
Genesis is never so named); Satan is not very common in the Hebrew Bible
(see note to First Chronicles 21.1), and he may not be quite what one
expected. Some general information may be had by looking at these reviews
of Elaine Pagel's book, The Origin of Satan, in the Economist
and The Richmond
Review
.
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