Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lisbeth S. Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

Satan is mentioned in the Talmud as the source of sin and temptation and is
identified with the serpent in the garden of Eden (Sota 9b, Sanh. 29a).
Apparently we blow the shofar on Rosh Hashanah to confuse him (Rosh Hashanah
166). 
According to Yoma 20a, he is powerless only one day of the year, and that is
Yom Kippur (the numerical value of the word is 364).
Liz Fried

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> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Shoshanna Walker
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 12:13 PM
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> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Daniel
> 
> Thank you.  Where in the Dead Sea Scrolls?
> 
> I have found this:
> 
> Mastema
> 
> by Micha F. Lindemans
> The name of the devil in the Book of Jubilees. According to this
> book, Mastema is the chief of the evil spirits who tested Abraham and
> killed the first-born of the Egyptians.
> 
> Also, apparently this, not Tanach, is where the idea of fallen angels
appears
> 
> 
> So is this the transition of how just one of G-d's angels, Satan,
> "became" the devil - (an idea that's also not in the Torah)?
> 
> Shoshanna
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> @Shoshanna,
> 
> Mastemah(Prince of Malevolence) is found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, I
> love that name that is how I remembered him. 4Q225
> 
> And a son of love was born to Abraham and he named him Isaac.  Now
> the Prince of Malevolence (Mastemah) came to God and brought his
> animosity to bear against Abraham because of Isaac....
> 
> --
> Kelton Graham
> KGRAHAM0938 AT comcast.net
> 
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
> 
> > Harold I am getting tired of all this - and it's only Monday.
> >
> > It doesn't matter (to me) that the first Christians were Jews if they
> > either misunderstood Torah, or didn't learn it, or started making up
> > their own beliefs, nor if you quote sources that are not Torah.
> >
> > There is not one example in the Jewish scriptures where any angel,
> > Satan included, opposes God's will, nor of a fiction named Mastema,
> > who allegedly induced God to test Abraham through the sacrifice of
> > Isaac.
> >
> > You are right that his job is that of tempter - he tempts mankind
> > away from obedience to G-d, so that when they choose G-d over Satan,
> > they are thereby elevated - and that he was the one who tempted Chava.
> >
> > But some day we will all be on an elevated spiritual level, and his
> > job will be over.
> >
> > If you are interested in a Jewish perspective, see
> > http://www.outreachjudaism.org/satan.html
> >
> > Shoshanna
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >"Even if an angel of G-d did give the vision to Daniel, it still came
> > >from G-d" Obviously everything comes from G-d. But if it came from
> > >an intermediary, it didn't come directly from G-d. And what do you
> > >mean, that "otherwise the vision would be from an angel of Satan"?
> > >There is only G-d, and Satan is only another angel, Satan doesn't
> > >have angels working under him. There are many many angels, an angel
> > >is a servant of G-d, and exists only to do a particular job, when its
> > >job is done, it ceases to exist - even Satan will no longer have a
> > >job to do one day.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > HH: Have you ever read the Apocryphra? It reveals a Jewish concept of
> > Satan that is like the Christian view of Satan, which of course was a
> > Jewish view because the first Christians were all Jews. Here is
> > something from the Jewish Encyclopedia on the view of Satan in the
> > Apocrypha:
> > http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid'0&letter=S
> >
> > The evolution of the theory of Satan keeps pace with the development of
> > Jewish angelology and demonology. In Wisdom ii. 24 he is represented,
> > with reference to Gen. iii., as the author of all evil, who brought
> > death into the world; he is apparently mentioned also in Ecclus.
> > (Sirach) xxi. 27, and the fact that his name does not occur in Daniel is
> > doubtless due merely to chance. Satan was the seducer and the paramour
> > of Eve, and was hurled from heaven together with other angels because of
> > his iniquity (Slavonic Book of Enoch, xxix. 4 et seq.). Since that time
> > he has been called "Satan," although previously he had been termed
> > "Satanel" (ib. xxxi. 3 et seq.). The doctrine of the fall of Satan, as
> > well as of the fall of the angels, is found also in Babylonia (Schrader,
> > l.c. p. 464), and is mentioned several times in the New Testament. Satan
> > rules over an entire host of angels (Martyrdom of Isaiah, ii. 2; Vita
> > Adæ et Evæ, xvi.). Mastema, who induced God to test Abraham through the
> > sacrifice of Isaac, is identical with Satan in both name and nature
> > (Book of Jubilees, xvii. 18), and the Asmodeus of the Book of Tobit is
> > likewise to be identified with him, especially in view of his
> > licentiousness. As the lord of satans he not infrequently bears the
> > special name Samael. It is difficult to identify Satan in any other
> > passages of the Apocrypha, since the originals in which his name
> > occurred have been lost, and the translations employ various
> > equivalents. An "argumentum a silentio" can not, therefore, be adduced
> > as proof that concepts of Satan were not wide-spread; but it must rather
> > be assumed that reference to him and his realm is implied in the mention
> > of evil spirits of every sort (comp. Demonology, and Kautzsch,
> > "Apokryphen," Index).
> >
> > >
> > >
> > Yours,
> > Harold Holmyard
> >
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