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Satan, Job and Goethe
Peter Kirk has commented on a post by Tyler Williams on whether and how “Satan” appears in the book of Job. Peter writes:
Formally, in Job chapters 1 and 2 there is no proper name “Satan”, but only several occurrences of a common noun with the definite article, ha-satan meaning “the adversary”. (In Hebrew, as in [...]
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