The Old Enemy
Satan and the Combat Myth
1st Edition
Published on 11. February 2021
524 pages
978-0-691-21460-3 (ISBN)
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Content
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Abbreviations Page
- Preface
- Introduction: The Devil's Story
- Part One: Ancient Enemies
- 1. Huwawa And Gilgamesh
- (1). The Gilgamesh Tradition
- (2). Variants of the Huwawa Narrative
- (3). Huwawa and His Trees: The Ambivalence of the Adversary
- 2. The Dragon And The Sea: Ancient Near Eastern Combats
- (1). Cosmogony or Kingship?
- (2). Canaanite Battles with Sea
- (3). Marduk and Tiamat
- (4). Ninurta and the Anzu-Bird
- (5). Ninurta and the Azag Demon
- (6). Ninurta, Akhenaton, and Psalm 104
- (7). Syncretism in the Enumd Elis
- (8). Death and the Dragon
- (9). The Voice of God
- 3. Greece and the Near East
- (1). Pherecydes and the Canaanite Connection
- (2). Hesiod's Theogony: The Glorification of Zeus
- (3). Zeus the Rebel
- 4. Combat at the Red Sea: The Exodus Legend
- (1). The Survival of Tradition
- (2). Dry Ground Through Sea and River
- (3). Kingship and the Myth Language
- (4). Exodus Typology and Redemption
- Part Two: Rebellion and Apocalypse
- 5. The Satan of: the old Testament
- 6. The Adversary as Rebel
- (1). Rebellion as Combat Motive
- (2). Which One Is the Rebel? Enuma Elis
- (3). Athtar: The Rebel in Canaan
- (4). Phaethon: The Rebel in Greece
- (5). Lucifer: The Rebel in Isaiah
- (6). The Rebel Princes in Ezekicl
- (7). From Prophecy to Apocalypse
- 7. The Sons Of God And The Daughters Of Men
- 8. Rebellion And Lust! The Watcher Angels In the Aramaic Enoch Books
- (1). Semihazah: The Mixing of Angels and Women
- (2). Asael and Forbidden Knowledge
- 9. The Convergence of Satan and the Watcher Angels: The Book of Jubilees
- 10. The Angel Of Light And The Angel Of Darkness
- (1). Giants and Trees: The Moralized Myth
- (2). The Two Spirits
- (3). The Prophet and the Satanic Priest
- 11. Antifeminism and Theological Dilemmas
- Part Three: Gnostic and Christian Mythology
- 12. The Adam Books and the Serpent's Identity: Gnostic Developments From Jewish Apocalyptic
- (1). The Watchers and Eve
- (2). Adam and Original Wisdom
- (3). Origins and Texts of the Adam Books
- (4). Seth and the Oil of Mercy
- (5). The Serpent and Satan
- (6). The Birth of Cain
- (7). Satan's Envy of Adam: A Gnostic Allegory
- (8). Excursus: Satan in the Slavonic Book of the Secrets of Enoch
- 13. Apocalypse and Christian Combat
- 14. Pauline Enemies
- (1). Paul and Apocalypse
- (2). The Myth of Psalm 110.1
- (3). Paul and His Opponents
- (4). The Adversary and the Law
- (5). The Origins of the Struggle
- (6). The Pauline Tradition
- 15. The Combat in the Synoptic Gospels
- 16. The Devil And The Canon
- Part Four: The Demiurge and the Devil
- 17. Satan the Heretic
- (1). First Born of Satan
- (2). Satan and Judas
- 18. Gnosticism and the Demiurge
- (1). The Watchers and the Demiurge
- (2). Valentinian Gnosis: The Purification of God
- (3). Marcion the Literalist
- (4). The Demiurge and Genesis
- 19. Irenaeus: Refutation of the Demiurge
- (1). Apostasy and Ransom
- (2). Adam and Recapitulation
- 20 . The Watcher Angels in the Early Church
- 21. Origen's Wicked Angel: Universal Fall and Redemption
- (1). Origen and Interpretation
- (2). Redemption and Ransom
- (3). The Enoch Tradition
- (4). Origen on First Principles
- (5). Celsus and Pagan Allegory
- (6). Origen's Reply to Celsus
- Part Five: Augustine and the Structure of Christian Mythology
- 22. Augustine! The Task and the Opponents
- (1). Christian Variations of Fall and Redemption
- (2). Manichaeism: The Divided Cosmos
- 23. Manichaean Dualism and Augustinian Dialectic
- (1). Heresy and Opposition
- (2). The Theory of Sin
- (3). The City of Sin and the City of Grace
- 24. Augustine's Confessions: The Two Trees
- 25 . Augustine and Genesis
- (1). Ambrose on Eden
- (2). Augustine on Eden: The Anti-Manichaean Genesis
- (3). The Sin of Satan: The "Literal" Genesis
- (4). Augustine's Eve
- (5). Opposition and Conversion: God's Plot
- Appendix: Methods and Terms
- (1). Classification of Traditional Narrative
- (2). Propp on Morphological Analysis
- (3). The Combat Plot
- (4). Oral-Formulaic Poetry
- Bibliography and References
- Index
