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An Adversary in Heaven: śāṭān in the Hebrew Bible

Peggy L. Day · 1988

Peggy L. Day's technical philological monograph on the Hebrew noun śāṭān in the Hebrew Bible — establishing the case that the term in its biblical usage designates an adversarial-prosecutorial role rather than a proper name for a personal evil figure. Standard reference for the Hebrew-Bible philological background of the satan figure.