How can Satan/the Devil be in a Jewish story (the "Book of Job")?
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First. The original Church was 100% a Jewish sect. All twelve Apostles where Jewish. The one Apostle sent to the Gentiles, appealed first to the local synagogues, as it is written, to the Jew first.
Second. The concept of Old and New Testaments is a Gentile notion, purely fabricated. Its roughly equivalent to an index. Bible verses are also a Gentile invention, and relatively modern. The modern view of Old and New is largely a matter of formatting.
Third. Devil, Satan, Serpent and Dragon, are not proper names. Each discribe some facet or view of the same person.. Serpent and Dragon are astrological descriptions. Humans in antiquity would be far more familiar with these latter two terms, than modern humans.
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The mainstream Jewish view of Satan emanates from the Book of Job. Satan is seen as the Adversary or Prosecutor, an agent of Jehovah, very much part of the divine council, that searches out the individual's wrongdoings and appears as their accuser. This notion differs from mainstream Christian notions of Satan as some demonic fallen angel who opposes God or personifies evil in a war in heaven between the forces of good and evil.
This is illustrated in Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
Identifying Jehovah, not Satan, as the disposer of all events, good and evil alike.
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