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The Devil Made Us Do It

Data Over Dogma

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The Satan of Job

In the Greco-Roman period, Satan is still kind of a generic noun. And so in Anakic and other literature, you actually have satans, which is just kind of a general name for these deities. So this is not the contemporary Christian concept of Satan. This is something very different. It's trying to sound old and foreign in an effort to kind of dislodge it from any discernible historical context.

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