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NOTES ON THE GODS

by Robert F. Smith 2012 (version 2)
Titlature Satan, like Jesus, is a son of God and angel of YHWH1 who has a name which is really a title, haatan, "the Adversary, Opponent" (Job 1:6-12, Ps 109:6, Zech 3:1-2, I . Chron 21:1, Lk 10:18, Rev 12:9, 20:2; 1QH frags. 4:6, 14:3, 1QSb 1:8), Satan, also like Jesus, is termed an "angel of light" (in disguise, II Cor 11:14; cf. 1QS 3:20-21, CD 5:18), and Satan, again like Jesus, can be called "the Father" (Matt 13:38, Jn 8:38-44, I Jn 3:8-15, Acts 13:10). Satan has many other titles as well: Heb Abaddon, "Destruction, Perdition" = Gk Apollyon, "Destroyer; Angel/ King of the Abyss/Bottomless Pit" (Job 26:6, Ps 88:12, Prov 15:11, 27:20 2eol, Rev 9:11; cf. 1QS 4:12, CD 2:6, 1QM 13:12, 14:10; II Enoch 53:3, 56:1, TB abbat 88a, TJ ebuot 6:37a), Asmodeus, "Destroyer" (Tobit 3:8,17; = Persian Demon Aeshma Daeva), Ba)al-Zebul, "Lord-Majesty," or, by dysphemistic word-play, Ba)al-Zebub, Beel-Zebub, "Lord-of-Flies" (II Ki 1:2-3,6, Matt 10:25, 12:22-30, Mk 3:22-30, Lk 11:14-26), Beli)al/ Beliar/Belias (Dt 13:13/14, Ps 18:4, II Cor 6:15; 1QS 1:18,23-24, CD 4:13,15, 5:18, 7:2, 12:2, 1QM 13:11-12, 1QH 5:38-39, 4QFlor [4Q174] 8-9, 4QMMT; Jubilees 1:20, Testament of Levi 18:12, 19:1, Test. Dan 5:1; Martyrdom of Isaiah 2:4; Sibylline Oracles 2:167, 3:63,73; Didache 21:3; Apocryphon of John 11:4-5), Dragon, Rahab, Leviathan, Serpent, Snake (Gen 3, Ex 15, Job 2:8, 26:13, Pss 74:12-17, 89:10-13, Isa 27:1, 51:9-11, Matt 3:7 [1QH 3:17], Rev 12:9, 20:2; Ugaritic Baal & Mot [CAT 1.5.I:12,28-29]), Evil-One, God of this World (II Cor 4:4), Prince of Darkness, Prince of Devils (Rom 5, Heb 2:14, Matt 9:34; = Beli)al in 1QS 3:20-21, 4Q390, Testament of Levi 19, Testament of Joseph 7, 20), of Power of Air (Eph 2:2), of this World (Jn 12:31, 14:30, 16:11, II Cor 4:4; Martyrdom of Isaiah 2:4), Gk Diabolos, "Accuser, Calumniator, Devil" (Job 1:6, Wisdom of Solomon 2:24, Matt 4:1, Jn 8:44, 13:2, Heb 2:14, Rev 12:9, 20:2, Apocryphon of James 4:30,37,39), Accuser (Rev 12:10), Tempter (Gen 3, I Thess 3:5), Wicked-One (Matt 13:19), Heb Samma&el, "Venom-of-God" = Gnostic archon Samael,

R. S. Kluger, Satan in the Old Testament, trans. H. Nagel (Northwestern Univ., 1967).

ATAN / LUCIFER . "Blind-God" (Baruch 4:9, I Enoch 6, Sibylline Oracles 2:215, Apocryphon of John 11:18, Hypostasis of the Archons 87:3-4, 94:25-26, On the Origin of the World 103:18), )Az(azel, "Scapegoat" (Lev 16:8-26, I Enoch 10:4-6, 54:6, Testament of Solomon 7:7, 4Q180), Matema (Jubilees 10:8ff,18ff, 11:5, 17:16, 18:9, 49:2; 1QS 5:22, CD 4:13, 5:18, 7:2, 16:5, . 4Q390), one of the Watchers who fell from heaven (Dan 4:13,17,23, CD 2:16), etc.2 A Problem With Lucifer A question is sometimes posed as to whether a particular pericope in the Old Testament has anything to do with Satan, namely that famous passage in Isaiah 14.3 Although some modern scholars have vacillated,4 early Church Fathers such as Tertullian, Origen, and Augustine made the connection very explicit.5 Others, such as leading evangelical theologian John Warwick Montgomery, are direct and frank in accepting the connection.6 Still others have virtually granted the entire point without realizing it.7 Giving the passage in question a careful analysis leaves no doubt about the

Some of these identifications are discussed in W. F. Albright & C. S. Mann, Matthew, Anchor Bible 26 (Doubleday, 1971), 34. Cf. Jeffrey Burton Russell, Satan: The Early Christian Tradition (Ithaca: Cornell Univ., 1982); Peggy Lynne Day, "tn in the Hebrew Bible," doctoral . dissertation (Harvard Univ., 1986), abstract in HTR, 79 (1986), 471 = published as An Adversary in Heaven: Satan in the Hebrew Bible, Harvard Semitic Monographs (Scholars Press, 1988). My late friend, theologian Olive Wilcox, first raised the question, and the first draft of this paper was put into her hands in 1979.
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F. F. Bruce, History of the Bible in English, 3rd ed., 264.

Ronald F. Youngblood, "Fallen Star: The Evolution of Lucifer," Bible Review, XIV/6 (Dec 1998), 24, citing Tertullian, Against Marcion 5:11,17 (Ante-Nicene Fathers III:454,466), Origen, De Principiis 1:5 (Ante-Nicene Fathers IV:259), and Augustine, City of God 11:13-15.
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Montgomery, The Law Above the Law (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1975), 81.

J. D. Davis & H. G. Gehman in Westminster Dictionary of the Bible, 5th ed. (Phila.: Westminster Press, 1944/ 1st ed., 1898), 364 @ Lucifer: The prophet likened the splendor of the king of Babylon to Lucifer, son of the morning (Isa. 14:12; in R.V. day star), and Jesus calls himself "the bright, the morning star" (Rev. 22:16; cf. II Peter 1:19). The application of the name Lucifer

ATAN / LUCIFER . intended meaning, i.e., Isaiah 14:12 refers to Helel son of ahar, "Bright-One, son of . Dawn" (=LXX Greek Heosphoros = Latin Vulgate Lucifer, "Light-Bearer, Morning-Star [Venus]"), and Helel is being used in that context as a metaphor for a high and mighty Assyrian or Babylonian king (perhaps Nebuchadrezzar II, Evil-Merodach, or Nabonidus; Ezekiel 28:2-10 uses similar language to describe the ruler of Tyre). However, Helel is the name or title of a well-known Canaanite god of the Dawn, probably equivalent to Ugaritic hll, and Babylonian elil, "shining-one."8 He is more frequently seen as Canaanite and early South Arabic Athtar, "Splendor," the Lion (I Pt 5:8), god of Venus-in-the-Morning, which is identical to Moabite Atar-Kemo, Arabic Atar-amayin, and Aramaic Attar-amayin, "Morning-Star-of-Heaven," etc.9 Canaanite Athtar is god of the Underworld, who, like Punic Melqart, had challenged Ba)al-Zephon for his throne in the ancient Ba)al Epic known from the Ugaritic texts of Ras Shamra (which were first discovered in the 1930s): The North, Safon . In Isaiah 14:12-15 and the surrounding text, Isaiah is directly referring to and perhaps even quoting from a Canaanite poem on the defeat of Mot or Athtar in his battle with Hadad Ba)al-Safon (= )Elyon, "The Most High," there and in Hebrew . Religion),10 and the Heavenly Council -- the members of which are represented as the

to Satan, the rebel angel hurled from heaven, has existed since the 3d century, especially among poets. It is based on the erroneous supposition that Luke 10:18 is an explanation of Isa. 14:12; cf. also Rev. 9:1; 12:7-10. One may compare other articles in the same edition for broader perspective (esp. 424, 534-535, on Nergal and Satan). Langdon in The Mythology of All Races: Semitic, V:145; Chicago Asssyrian Dictionary, I:1, pp. 348-349, elilu, alilu, "brilliant one, brave one, warrior," an epithet of kings. Black & Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia, 35, 108; Gordon, Orientalia, 37:427 8; Cf. F. M. Cross in Bible Review, VIII/6 (Dec 1992), 28.
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Both Ba)al-Hadad and YHWH are termed "Cloud-Rider" (Ps 68:4 [MT 68:5]; cf. Dan 7:13), both dwell in Mt. Safon (Pss 29:3,10, 48:2 [MT 48:3], Isa 14:13), both destroy the great . 3

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ATAN / LUCIFER . circumpolar, eternal stars of God, by Isaiah and by Canaanite and Egyptian myth -- is a witness to that defeat.11 The site of the battle in the "recesses of the North" (Heb. yarketey Safon) mentioned in Isa 14:13, refers to the Cosmic and Holy Mountain of . Ba)al-Hadad (Jebel 'el-Aqra`) at the mouth of the Orontes River in North Syria,12 a kind of Canaanite Olympus. The poem to which Isaiah probably has direct reference is Ugaritic Text 49:I:33-37 (CTA 6), as rendered by the late Mitchell Dahood:13 And, Athtar the terrible replied: "I cannot rule in the heart of Zaphon." Athtar the terrible came down from the throne of Baal, and became king in the vast underworld, all of it. The Slavonic Enoch, composed in Egypt, probably edited by a Hellenistic Jew at the beginning of the Christian era, and preserved in Slavic monasteries, contains an echo of this and the Judeo-Christian tradition, e.g., II Enoch 29:4-5: One from out [of] the order of angels [Satan, cf. 31:4] . . . conceived an impossible thought, to place his throne higher than the clouds above the earth, that he might become equal in rank to my power. And I threw him

Dragon, or Sea (Ps 74:12-15, Isa 27:1, Job 7:12), and both arrive in a great thunderstorm, with seven thunders or seven lightnings (Ps 29:3-9; KTU 1.101.3-4 = Ugaritica V.3.3-4) all discussed by John Day in Freedman, ed., Anchor Bible Dictionary, I:548-549.
Albright, Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan, 134, 141-142n, 187, 228, 231-232, 239; ern, Ancient Egyptian Religion, 51-52; Journal of Egyptian Archeology, 21:5, n. 2; Erman, Literature of the Ancient Egyptians, 142; Bright, A History of Israel, 3rd ed., 350n; cf. Pss 48:32148:3; Enuma eli V:1. Hector Avalos in D. N. Freedman, Anchor Bible Dictionary (N.Y.: Doubleday, 1992), VI:10401041, citing R. J. Clifford, The Cosmic Mountain in Canaan and the Old Testament (Cambridge, Mass.: 1972); Michael D. Coogan, Stories from Ancient Canaan (Louisville, KY: Westminster, 1978), 13, 22. Dahood, Psalms, Anchor Bible 16, I:111; cf. UT 77:45-47 (CTA 24), Job 38:18, Isa 40:25-26, Lk 10:18, Jude 6, II Nephi 2:17-18, 9:8-10, PGP Moses 4:3-4, Abraham 3:26-28, D&C 76:25-38.
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ATAN / LUCIFER . from the height.14 This is similar to the Mesopotamian legend of the god Nergal, who descended to the Netherworld at the time of creation.15 Adam likewise causes Satan's expulsion from heaven at the time of creation in the 5th century A.D. "Book of Adam and Eve," I:6: But the wicked Satan set me at naught, and sought the Godhead, so that I hurled him down from heaven.16 Such imagery is familiar from the Book of John the Evangelist ("He set his seat above the clouds of heaven"),17 the Gospel (or Questions) of Bartholomew 4:24-25, the Papyrus Bodmer X, 54:12,18 and later in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Monk's Tale,"19 as well as in "Piers Plowman," II:105-11, and certainly in John Milton's "Paradise Lost."20

R. H. Charles, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, II:426, 4. Cf. F. I. Andersen's translation in J. H. Charlesworth, ed., The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (N.Y.: Doubleday, 1983), I:148,154, which include comments on the inclusion there and elsewhere of Sotona/Satana/Satanail/Satanael/Satanao (cf. Gospel of Bartholomew 4:24-25). Cf. Giorgio de Santillana & Hertha von Dechend, Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time (Gambit, 1969/ Boston: D. Godine, 1977), 297,323-324,413,417,437,448-449. Vita Adae et Evae, xii-xvii, in R. H. Charles, APOT, II:137 (Life of Adam & Eve 14:2-3, 15:1, in Nibley, Works, XII:195-196, n. 83); cf. Testament of Levi 3:2, Test. of Dan 5:5-6, II Enoch 18:3. See also K. L. Schmidt, "Luzifer als gefallne Engelsmacht," in Theologische Zeitung, VII (1951), 261279.
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Montague R. James, Apocryphal New Testament (Oxford, 1924/1955), 188.

Nibley, Works, XII:196, n. 84; J. K. Elliott, ed., The Apocryphal New Testament (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), 663. Youngblood, "Fallen Star," Bible Review, XIV/6 (Dec 1998), 25, 31; see the "Canterbury Tales," frag. VII, lines 1999-2006, and frag. B2, lines *3189-*3196, in F. N. Robinson, ed., The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 2nd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957), 189. B. Bamberger, Fallen Angels (N.Y., 1954); Neil Forsyth, The Satanic Epic (Princeton Univ. Press, 2003).
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ATAN / LUCIFER . In its 6th edition, Gehman's New Westminster Dictionary of the Bible finally accepted the theretofore rejected parallel of Luke 10:18 with Isaiah 14:12 as employing a common simile or metaphor ("figure"), thus following modern scholarship at long last.21 Father and Sons Thus, just as Canaanite Ba)al and Athtar are competitors for the kingdom of their father (El, so are Yahweh (Jehovah) and Satan the Biblical adversaries,22 even as Isaiah uses the battle as a metaphor for the future fall of a human king. The motif is clearly applied to several great kings in order to show that their hubris is their nemesis: Kings Rezon and Hadad are "satans" raised up against Solomon (I Ki 11:14ff, 23ff), while the king of Tyre, thinking himself the god Melqart (Ba)al-Melcarth < milk-qart, "king of the city"), also receives his comeuppance according to Ezekiel (26:2-19, 28:2-19) with the same "revival of ancient mythologoumena", which we see in Isaiah 13 - 14.23 Jesus, on the other hand, refuses to seize cosmic power (Matt 4:1-10, Philipp 2:6-9).

Gehman & Davis (Phila., 1970), 835; cf. 569, where the relationship to Ugaritic Helel is finally noted though not developed. This and the 5th edition are in error in any case in maintaining that the application of the metaphor began in the 3rd century A.D. As noted in the Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon, 1962), III:227b, Satan was already so identified by the 2nd century B.C. in the Book of Enoch (I En 54:5-6), which early Jewish and Christian literature contained as part of the scriptural canon -- still the case for some branches of Eastern Christianity, e.g., the Ethiopic Church (see the Summer 1985 issue of Bible Review for F. M. Cross' chart on later exclusion of once canonical books), and for Jewish Falashas. Cf. Jude 1516, a quotation from I Enoch 1:9, and an allusion to 5:5. The motif is further explicated in the Interpreter's Bible, V (Abingdon, 1956), at Isa 14:12, and the Interpreter's One Volume Commentary on the Bible (1971). See also the NEB (New English Bible, Oxford Study Edition) note on Rev 9:1 stars as angels (1:20), and this fallen star as perhaps Satan the fallen angel (9:11), citing there Isa 14:12-16 and Luke 10:18. Especially in Job, Jude 4-9, Rev 12:7-9, I Enoch 1, 5, 10, 18-21, 54, and Assumption of Moses 7:1-7, 10:1. Cf. Conrad E. L'Heureux, Rank Among the Canaanite Gods: El, Ba)al, and the Repha)im, Harvard Semitic Monograph 21 (Missoula: Scholars Press, 1979). Kittel, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, @ diabolos; R. De Vaux, Ancient Israel, II:279. In Exodus 15, Psalms 74:13-14, 89:10-13, and Isaiah 27:1, 51:9-11, similar epic parallels exist for YHWH taking the place of Ba)al in his battle with Yamm, "Sea" (F. M. Cross in Bible Review, VIII/5 [Oct 1992], 28-29).
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ATAN / LUCIFER . As I have suggested, this pattern is well-attested throughout the ancient Near East, i.e., Athtar is virtually the same in person and function in the pantheon as Sumerian NE R.GAL, or MA.MA, Assyro-Babylonian Nergal, and Amorite-Hebrew Reef (Arsuf/Mot), all gods of pestilence, war, death, and the Underworld, who dwelt in heaven until the time of creation, and who were then cast down for the first time.24 The reuse of "older material" in Isaiah 14 as a doom oracle on a human oppressor in no way eliminates the primary meaning, and indeed depends heavily upon that primary meaning. A motif is valuable, after all, only insofar as its primary meaning is broadly understood by those receiving the message. Without this being true, satire, metaphor, simile, allegory, parable, etc., would be impossible. Moreover, there are other historical connections: Nergal is the name of King Evil Merodach (Amel-Marduk) of Babylon before he comes to the throne (560-556 B.C.).25 The god Nergal chooses Nabonidus to be king over Babylonia while he is yet in his mother's womb.26 Between Evil-Merodach and Nabonidus came Nergal-Sharezer, brother-in-law to Evil-Merodach, but he reigned only four years (Jeremiah 39:3,13, mentions him while he was still only a military commander).27 Stephen Langdon's study of this god concluded that the myth of Nergal is clearly recalled in Isa 13 - 14, to wit: Like Athtar and atan, the lion is his symbol; he plots to destroy mankind; "He . is,..the incarnation of evil, who, like Satan, hates all piety and goodness"; he not only hates righteousness, and is lord of the earth, but is also judge of the dead and prince of Arallu/Underworld, the land of no return, though he was originally solar in nature

Encyclopaedia Judaica, 5:390, 1481-82; see Deut 32:24, II Ki 17:30, I Chron 7:25, Hab 3:5, Job 5:7, Ps 76:4, Songs 8:6; note likewise the opposition of Zoroastrian Ahriman and Ormazd. In Mesopotamian accounts it is the Serpent Kur, who comes from the "great below," who is defeated by Ninurta/Marduk, or another hero (Samuel N. Kramer, Sumerian Mythology, 2nd ed. [Phila.: Univ. of Penn., 1961/1972], 76-79. Cf. Gordon in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed., 12:91-96).
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ATAN / LUCIFER . (known as Irra, Gira, and Enmesharra).28 Just so the pantheon of each ancient nation had its own "satan," whatever the name or title applied. As Assyriologist Simo Parpola pointed out recently, the defeat of the sevenheaded Dragon and his angelic retinue by Michael and his angels in Revelation 12:1-9 is actually part of "an enduring tradition of Near Eastern religious beliefs and symbols," i.e., Sumerian mu sag-imin is the same seven-headed Serpent who is slain by the savior-god Nin-urta/Nimrod, son of Ellil/Enlil.29 The Divine Council Biblically, as elsewhere, Satan is cast down not once but several times (Gen 3, Dan 11:21-45, I En 40:7, Lk 10:18, Jn 12:31, Rev 12:4), yet remains on the Earth while the Anti-Christ serves him, is then bound, released, and finally cast into a lake of fire at the absolute and final judgment (II Thess 2:9-10, Rev 12:9,12, 13:2). If Jesus is the Advocate and Defender before the Father (Job 19:25, I Jn 2:1), so Satan is the Prosecutor (Job 1:6 2:7), both in the heavenly court.30 But what is this heavenly court? Who is involved? When and where does the court meet? The heavenly court motif is recognized by modern scholarship as being the Assembly of the Gods (Isa 40:25-26, Ps 82),31 and it is interchangeable with the "banquet

Langdon in Mythology of All Races, V:137-147,163-164,342, 351,400. Cf. N. J. Tromp, Primitive Conceptions of Death and the Netherworld in the Old Testament, BiOr 12 (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1969). Simo Parpola, "From Whence the Beast?" Bible Review, XV/6 (Dec 1999), 24, comparing Ps 74 (defeat of Leviathan); see the Sumerian Epics of Lugal-e and An-gim, as well as the Babylonian versions of the Epic of Anzum. Parpola deals with other Mesopotamian roots of Judeo-Christian tradition in "Sons of God," Archaeology Odyssey, II/5 (Nov-Dec 1999), 16-27, 61. Cf. P. L. Day, An Adversary in Heaven: Satan in the Hebrew Bible, Harvard Semitic Monograph (Harvard Semitic Museum, 1988). E. Theodore Mullen, Jr., The Assembly of the Gods: The Divine Council in Canaanite and Early Hebrew Literature, Harvard Semitic Monograph 24 (Chico: Scholars Press, 1980). R. N. Whybray, The Heavenly Counsellor in Isaiah xl 13-14 (Cambridge Univ., 1971) [cf. UT 77:45-47];
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ATAN / LUCIFER . of salvation on the World Mountain."32 In Hebrew it is termed )Adat (El (Ps 82:1), or Sod, "Heavenly Council; Decision of Council; counsel, secret, mystery" (= Essene/ Qumran raz = Iranian/Persian raza = Pauline mysterion), and is the direct corollary of Ugaritic )dt.ilm, Phr.ilm, Phr.m)d, "The Divine Parliament; The Group of the Assembly . . (of Gods)" (= Sumerian UKKIN = Akkadian Puhrum). It is likely that that divine . assembly included pre-existent man,33 along with Seraphim, Cherubim,34 and other

M. Tsevat, "God and the Gods in Assembly; An Interpretation of Psalm 82," Hebrew Union College Annual, 40-41 (1969-1970), 123-137; cf. R. F. Smith in Dialogue, 6/1 (Spring 1971), 102, on Isa 53 and Job 19:25. J. Jeremias in Jesu Mission fr die Volker, Franz Delitzsch-Vorlesungen, 1953 (Stuttgart, 1956), citing Matt 8:11-12, Lk 13:28-29, 14:15-24 (cf. Matt 22:1-14), 22:30, Rev 19:9, and I Enoch 62:14 (cf. Isa 25:6-8, Ezk 34:14-16, 40:2, 47:1-12), as instances of this gathering; B. Margulis, "Weltbaum and Weltberg in Ugaritic Literature," Zeitschrift fr die alttestamentlissche Wissenschaft, 86 (1974), 1-23; R. J. Clifford, The Cosmic Mountain in Canaan and in the Old Testament (1972); Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 33 (1971), 221-227; cf. Albright in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 116:234-235; Gordon, Ugaritic Textbook, ##1397, 1512, and UT 137; R. De Vaux, Ancient Israel, II:279-281. Cf. M. Dahood, Psalms, Anchor Bible, III:285,295, on Ps 139:15, implying pre-existence -- as in Gen 2:7, 3:19, Ps 90:3, Eccles 3:20, 5:14, 12:7, Ecclus 40:1, Job 1:21. The New Jerusalem Bible (N.Y.: Doubleday, 1985), note i at Ex 25:18, defines cherubim (griffin) as follows: The word corresponds to the Babylonian karibu, half-human, half-animal spirits guarding the gates of temples and palaces. In Biblical descriptions and Middle Eastern iconography, the great winged creatures were winged sphinxes. Winged creatures played no part in the cult in the desert, and do not seem to occur in the cult of Yahweh earlier than the stay of the ark at Shiloh, where Yahweh was entitled "He who is enthroned on the great winged creatures," 1 S 4:4, 2 S 6:2; see 2 K 19:15; Ps 80:1; 99:1, and is said to "ride on the winged creatures," 2 S 22:11; see Ps 18:10. In Solomon's Temple, they formed a frame for the ark and disappeared when the ark disappeared. In the post-exilic Temple, two little figures of winged creatures were attached to the mercy seat. see preceding note. In Ezk 1 and 10, God's chariot is drawn by winged creatures. Cf. Ezk 1:4 - 2:8, 10; 4Q405 20, 2:21-22; I En 14:16-17, II En 21:1.
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ATAN / LUCIFER . angelic creatures (but see D&C 77:2-4, Rev 4:6-8). Certainly Garr and Mettinger emphasize the plurality of the divine world in Gen 1 - 3.35 Old Israelite Ritual Drama Time and again the motif is reenacted, and each time is just as valid for the immediate observers/participants, whether an instance of Yahweh defeating Baal on Mount Carm-El, "Vineyard-of-God" (I Ki 18:20-48), a meeting/council on the Mount of Transfiguration (Matt 17:1ff), or even the confrontation on the Mount of Temptation (Lk 4:5ff).36 To ignore the pattern is to take scripture out of context. Moreover, the pattern can be ritual drama, as explained by F. M. Cross in his 1973 magnum opus:37 Israel's religion emerged from a mythopoeic past under the impact of certain historical experiences which stimulated the creation of an epic cycle and its associated covenant rites of the early time. Thus epic, rather than the Canaanite cosmogonic myth, was featured in the ritual drama of the old Israelite cultus. At the same time the epic events and their interpretation were shaped strongly by inherited mythic patterns and language, so that they gained a vertical dimension in addition to their horizontal, historical stance. In this tension between mythic and historical elements the meaning of Israel's history became transparent.

Tryggve Mettinger, The Eden Narrative: A Religio-Historical Study of Genesis 2-3 (Eisenbrauns, 2007), 55, citing Randall Garr, In His Own Image and Likeness (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 17-92. On reenactments of expulsion of evil and the devil, see J. G. Frazer and T. H. Gaster, The New Golden Bough (N.Y.: Criterion, 1959), 444-470. Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Harvard Univ., 1973), Preface, quoted by Cross in Bible Review, VIII/5 (Oct 1992), 29.
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ATAN / LUCIFER . Bibliography Albright, William F., and C. S. Mann, Matthew, Anchor Bible 26 (Doubleday, 1971). Albright, William F., "Neglected Factors in the Greek Intellectual Revolution," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 116/3 (June 1972), 225-242. Albright, William F., Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan: A Historical Analysis of Two Contrasting Faiths, 1965 Jordan Lectures (N.Y.: Doubleday, 1968). Avalos, Hector, Zaphon, Mount, in D. N. Freedman, Anchor Bible Dictionary (N.Y.: Doubleday, 1992), VI:1040-1041. Bamberger, Bernard J., Fallen Angels: Soldiers of Satans Realm (Phila.: JPSA, 1952 / reprint 2006). Black, Jeremy, and Anthony Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1992). Blackman, A. M., "The Stela of Nebipusenwosret: British Museum No. 101," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 21 (1935), 1-9, and plate I. Bright, John, A History of Israel, 2nd ed. (Phila.: Westminster, 1972). Bright, John, A History of Israel, 3rd ed. (Phil.: Westminster, 1981). Bruce, F. F., History of the Bible in English, 3rd ed. (Lutterworth, 2002). ern, Jaroslav, Ancient Egyptian Religion (London/N.Y.: Hutchinson's Univ. Library, 1952). Charles, R. H., Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913).

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ATAN / LUCIFER . Charlesworth, James H., ed., The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha , 2 vols. (N.Y.: Doubleday, 1983/1985). Clifford, R. J., The Cosmic Mountain in Canaan and the Old Testament (Cambridge, Mass.: 1972). Coogan, Michael D., Stories from Ancient Canaan (Louisville, KY: Westminster, 1978). Cross, Frank Moore, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel (Harvard Univ. Press, 1973). Cross, Frank Moore, An Interview: Part II: The Development of Israelite Religion, in Bible Review, VIII/5 (Oct 1992), 18-29, 50. Cross, Frank Moore, An Interview: Part III: How the Alphabet Democratized Civilization, Bible Review, VIII/6 (Dec 1992), 18-31, 58. Dahood, Mitchell J., Psalms I, Anchor Bible 16 (Doubleday, 1966/ reprint Yale, 1995).
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