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Article: Satan: A Biography.(Book review)
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- Church History
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- December 1, 2007
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2007 American Society of Church History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Satan: A Biography. By Henry Ansgar Kelly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv + 365 pp. $65.00 cloth; $19.99 paper.
This is a highly idiosyncratic book on a classic subject. Apparently directed at devout but uncritical Protestants and Catholics who have swallowed a scripturally erroneous interpretation of Satan as dualistic Enemy, Satan: A Biography argues that the Satan figure remains an ambivalent adversary figure throughout the Christian Bible, from Job through Revelation. In this "original biography of Satan," exemplified in Job but still operating in the Gospels and Epistles, Satan is a member of the heavenly council, charged with testing ...
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