Read The Origin of Satan Online
Authors: Elaine Pagels
Tags: #Religion, #Christianity, #History, #Christian Theology, #General, #Angelology & Demonology
135-36
in Mishnah, xxi
sexual sins, 121, 133, 154, 162, 170
Sappho, 126
Shammai, 84
Satan, xv-xxiii, 35-62, 88, 118, 139, 143
shut
(“to roam”),41
adversarial role of, 39-43, 183
“signs of the end,” 9-10
angelic origin of, 39-43, 47-55, 58,
Simon, 17
85-86,131-33, 141, 143
sins, 59, 149, 173-74, 176
Christian view of, 39
divine punishment for, xvi, 10, 40, 43
derivation of term, 39
sexual, 121, 133, 154, 162, 170
Essenes and, 34, 47, 56-61, 62, 84,
“slaughter of the innocents,” 78, 79
173, 179
slavery, 53, 121-22, 134, 135, 149-50,
group factions identified with, 13-29,
151
33-34
Smallwood, Mary, 14, 31, 75-76
group factions incited by, 42—48
Smith, Jonathan Z., xviii
in Hebrew stories, 39-42, 47-49
Socrates, 124, 137
human agents of, 13, 19, 90-91, 98,
Sodomites, 36
100-106, 111, 150, 153, 155, 165,
sower, parable of, 83
177-78, 180
Sperling, David, 58
Jesus tempted by, 11-12, 15-16, 80-
Stauffer, E., 31
81,90,101-2
Stendhal, Krister, 64-65
Judas Iscariot possessed bv, xxi, 12, 90,
Stephen, execution of, 108
92,93,102,105-6, 111
Stoics, 116, 120, 124, 126-30, 131
misfortunes caused by, xvi, 141
strangers, prescribed treatment of, 37
names given to, xvii, xviii, 20, 34, 47,
Sumer, xviii
48, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58
Suter, David, 50-51
as the self, 173-74
Syria, 9, 14, 65, 75, 89, 112, 115, 138
see also
demons; enemies
Satan's war with God, xvii, xxiii, 44, 47,
Tacitus, 7, 115, 142-43
49, 56, 57-61, 165, 173, 179-84
Tatian, xvi, 115, 131-35, 140
Christian dualism based on, 130, 141,
tax collectors, 18,91
143, 171, 176
Tcherikover, Victor, 45-46
in John, 98, 99-106, 111, 123
Teachings of Silvanus
, 73
in Luke, 89, 90-93, 98, 111, 123
Teachings of the Twelve Apostles
, 154-55,
in Mark, xvii, 11-17, 57, 60, 61, 89,
158
123, 179
Temple, Second, 10, 31, 43, 91, 107, 108
in Matthew, 82-86, 89, 123
desecrated by Antiochus Epiphanes,
moral contention in, 154-55
45-46
in Nag Hammadi texts, 158-63
destruction of, 6, 8, 9-10, 24, 75, 76
paganism and, 112-16, 117-22, 123—
priests of, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 18,
26, 130, 131-33, 135, 136, 137,
22-23, 25, 29, 33, 46-47, 50-51, 52,
139, 140, 143-46, 147-8;
see also
75-76, 79, 86, 90, 92, 93, 107, 152
gods, pagan
sayings of Jesus, 8, 66-75, 83-84, 153-54,
170, 172
in Q source, 66, 68, 80-81, 101, 183
214 / I N D E X
Ten Commandments, 154
Tertullian, 114-15, 146, 149, 150, 163-
66,169,177
heresy denounced by, 163-66,169,177
religious liberty endorsed by, 147
Testimony of Truth
, 156-60, 165, 166,
175
Theudas, 166
Tiberius, Emperor of Rome, 32
I Timothy, 151,152
Titus, Emperor of Rome, 3, 5-6
Torah, 45, 76-77, 78-86
Pharisees as interpreters of, 76, 81-82,
84-85,86
practices prescribed bv, 18-19, 22,
63-64,74,77,81,91
see also specific books
Trial of Jesus, The
(Catchpole), 94
“True Word, “The” (Celsus), 138-46
universalism, 37,51-52,55,60-61, 114
Valentinus, 156, 166-78
see also Gnosticism
Vespasian, Emperor of Rome, 3, 5, 75
Villes, Georges, 134
virgin birth, 77-78, 89-90, 99, 175
Vita Adae et Evae
, 49
“watcher” angels, 50-53
weeds, parable of, 83
Wilken, Robert, 114
Wink, Walter, xviii
Winter, Paul, xxi, 33, 110
yetzer ‘hara
, 174
Zechariah, book of, 43-4, 92
Zeus, 45, 120, 126, 141