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November 1, 2018

How the Biblical Satan Became the “Devil”

The Hebrew Bible’s conception of evil.

Although the name Satan comes from a biblical Hebrew word meaning “accuser,” this figure was very different from the leader of the forces of evil found in some post-biblical Jewish texts and in the New Testament. John Gregory Drummond explains:

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