Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy
Angaben zur Quelle:
30,1 (2022) 70-89
Keywords:
Rosen-Zvi, Ishay
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Talmud Bavli Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish Middle Ages, 600-1500
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History
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Devil in rabbinical literature
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Yetzer hara (Judaism)
Abstract:
In this article, I study several midrashic passages preserved in the Babylonian Talmud that deal with Satan. The verses that they are based on are nearly all drawn from the book of Job. I find that these midrashim strongly support the conclusions of Ishay Rosen-Zvi’s monograph Demonic Desires in several ways, notably that Satan is not the font and origin of evil in the world as he is in other branches or wings of the ancient Jewish imagination.
DOI:
10.1163/1477285X-12341327
URL:
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