The Old Enemy : : Satan and the Combat Myth / / Neil Forsyth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Forsyth, Neil,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (524 p.)

The description for this book, The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth, will be forthcoming.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION: THE DEVIL'S STORY
• Part One: Ancient Enemies
• 1. HUWAWA AND GILGAMESH
• 2. THE DRAGON AND THE SEA: ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN COMBATS
• 3. GREECE AND THE NEAR EAST
• 4. COMBAT AT THE RED SEA: THE EXODUS LEGEND
• Part Two: Rebellion and Apocalypse
• 5. THE SATAN OI: THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 6. THE ADVERSARY AS REBEL
• 7. THE SONS OF GOD AND THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN
• 8. REBELLION AND LUST! THE WATCHER ANGELS IN THE ARAMAIC ENOCH BOOKS
• 9. THE CONVERGENCE OF SATAN AND THE WATCHER ANGELS: The Book of Jubilees
• 10. THE ANGEL OF LIGHT AND THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS
• 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
• 13. APOCALYPSE AND CHRISTIAN COMBAT
• 14. PAULINE ENEMIES
• 15. THE COMBAT IN THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
• 16. THE DEVIL AND THE CANON
• Part Four: The Demiurge and the Devil
• 17. SATAN THE HERETIC
• 18. GNOSTICISM AND THE DEMIURGE
• 19. IRENAEUS: REFUTATION OF THE DEMIURGE
• 20. THE WATCHER ANGELS IN THE EARLY CHURCH
• 21. ORIGEN'S WICKED ANGEL: UNIVERSAL FALL AND REDEMPTION
• Part Five: Augustine and the Structure of Christian Mythology
• 22. AUGUSTINE! THE TASK AND THE OPPONENTS
• 23. MANICHAEAN DUALISM AND AUGUSTINIAN DIALECTIC
• 24. AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS: THE TWO TREES
• 25. AUGUSTINE AND GENESIS
• APPENDIX: METHODS AND TERMS
• BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES
• INDEX