{"id":117,"date":"2005-12-29T13:15:33","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T18:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2023-02-11T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T13:42:00","slug":"a-history-of-satan-hist-satan-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2005\/12\/a-history-of-satan-hist-satan-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of Satan (Satan 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to ongoing discussions regarding the origins, development, and significance of personified evil &#8212; Satan and his demons &#8212; in early Judaism and in the history of Christianity. We will be tracing the history of Satan (a.k.a. the Devil, Beelzebul, Beliar, Mastema, Lucifer, Mephisto) and his minions from ancient Mesopotamian chaos-monsters to early Jewish and Christian fallen angels to modern portrayals in music, television, and film. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/uploaded_images\/IshtarGatedragon.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon-like mythical figure, Ishtar gate\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"15\" vspace=\"10\" \/>To get a sense of what topics and sources may be covered in the next few months, you can look at my outline for the undergraduate course: &#8220;A History of Satan&#8221;. There are already a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/category\/history-of-christianity\/history-of-satan\/\">number of entries<\/a> here on this blog that deal with topics relating to Satan and hell. Ideas associated with this personified evil figure are thoroughly embedded within western culture, and these discussions will be an attempt to partially unravel the layers in his story.<\/p>\n<p>Come again, and I&#8217;ll look forward to any historically-minded comments or questions you may have.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE (Jan. 2): Check out the comments section, where significant (as well as not-so-significant) discussions have already begun.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Dragon-like mythical figure, associated with the god Marduk, on the Babylonian Ishtar Gate (c. 575 BCE; now in the Istanbul Archeological Museum; photo by Phil). Images like this one may have inspired the story of Daniel slaying the dragon in the Apocrypha, which draws on a long tradition of slaying the chaos-monster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to ongoing discussions regarding the origins, development, and significance of personified evil &#8212; Satan and his demons &#8212; in early Judaism and in the history of Christianity. We will be tracing the history of Satan (a.k.a. the Devil, Beelzebul, Beliar, Mastema, Lucifer, Mephisto) and his minions from ancient Mesopotamian chaos-monsters to early Jewish and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,467],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-satan","category-religions-of-the-ancient-mediterranean-blog-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13703,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/13703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}