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Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1987.
Description
The description for this book, The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth, will be forthcoming.
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LibraryThing member George_Stokoe
Looks at proto-"Satan" figures in several cultures and asks which were really the older god(s) and which was the usurper?
Ch. 1. Good on the combat with Gilgamesh vs. Huwara.
Ch. 3,Good on Greek combat:
“It sounds very much from the passage about Styx's children - although Hesiod is careful not to
Good on gnosticism. If you view gnosticism as an obscure heresy of interest only to LARPers on obscure anonymous imageboards, then you may not be impressed by this book:
“Amid all the excitement and intrigue generated by the discovery at Nag Hammadi in Egypt of various Gnostic documents, this ancient orthodoxy [Christianity] has revealed its continuing power. Only with great reluctance has it been conceded that one or two of the Gnostic "gospels" may derive from traditions older than the canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It is now possible, however, in the light of these finds and the prodigious scholarly labors they have stimulated, to recognize that the conventional picture of early Christianity was invented to serve the purposes, both doctrinal and political, of what became "establishment" Christianity. "
Good on the following Christian theological counteroffensive:
" The counterattack against belief in a bungling demiurge took place on several fronts at once" (p. 333, ch:19,Irenaeus :Refutation of the Demiurge)
Ch. 1. Good on the combat with Gilgamesh vs. Huwara.
Ch. 3,Good on Greek combat:
“It sounds very much from the passage about Styx's children - although Hesiod is careful not to
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say so - as if Zeus and the younger gods were the aggressors. Otherwise they would have already been on Olympus. " (p. 85-6)Good on gnosticism. If you view gnosticism as an obscure heresy of interest only to LARPers on obscure anonymous imageboards, then you may not be impressed by this book:
“Amid all the excitement and intrigue generated by the discovery at Nag Hammadi in Egypt of various Gnostic documents, this ancient orthodoxy [Christianity] has revealed its continuing power. Only with great reluctance has it been conceded that one or two of the Gnostic "gospels" may derive from traditions older than the canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It is now possible, however, in the light of these finds and the prodigious scholarly labors they have stimulated, to recognize that the conventional picture of early Christianity was invented to serve the purposes, both doctrinal and political, of what became "establishment" Christianity. "
Good on the following Christian theological counteroffensive:
" The counterattack against belief in a bungling demiurge took place on several fronts at once" (p. 333, ch:19,Irenaeus :Refutation of the Demiurge)
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Physical description
xv, 506 p.; 25 cm
ISBN
0691067120 / 9780691067124
Local notes
HM
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