Satan is more or less transliteration of the hebrew word just hasatan, but it means something like the tester or the accuser. In some ways, this figure is kind of the embodiment of that basic dimension of human experience across the board. We don't have any idea who the author of the book of job is probably much, much later than the historical time period job would have lived in. It's totally plausible that there's a root historical figure here.

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