Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Jeffrey Burton Russell on the Problem with Thinking the Yetzer Hara Explains Old Testament Satanology

  

It is true that all cosmic conceptions may ultimately be psychological projects, but at least some of the Old Testament authors themselves considered Satan an objective reality, and this argument fails. (Jeffrey Burton Russell, The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity [Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977], 176)

 

 

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