RT Article
T1 The Satanic Verses and Evil in Babylonia
JF The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
VO 30
IS 1
SP 70
OP 89
A1 Boyarin, Daniel 1946-
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1799698106
AB 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.
K1 Ishay Rosen-Zvi
K1 Babylonian Jewry different from Palestinian
K1 Origin of Evil
K1 evil instinct
K1 Satan
DO 10.1163/1477285X-12341327