[Caleb Strom] The Jewish Satan Mastema and the Cosmic War Against God The earliest Jewish accounts did not have a clear Satan figure, but one of the earliest to be named was Mastema. Mastema is portrayed as the adversary of God. Mastema has his origin in the Jewish apocryphal work, the Book of Jubilees , in which he plays a role in many traditional stories in the Old Testament narrative. In addition to representing a dualistic tendency within early Jewish thought, Mastema may also represent the in-group-out-group dynamics of the Jewish community. Rembrandt’s depiction of Abraham about to kill his...
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