In Judaism the Serpent is definitely not Satan, yes? And the Devil is or is not identified with an angel known as Lucifer?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Satan in at least SOME traditional Judaism - again gotta be careful - is God's prosecuting angel. He's not evil.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
The Lucifer story afaik is very much a later Christian (and then Muslim) story
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
The overall fascination with fallen angels and demons was a big deal in 2nd Temple era Judaism where Christianity comes from
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
But -- possibly in reaction to Christianity -- later rabbis rejected the idea of fallen angels
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
And the Christian fascination with interpreting the "prince of Tyre" from Isaiah as metaphorically the prince of the fallen
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
There's a whole discussion to be had about how Judaism in the 2nd Temple was very heterodox
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
And Christianity is basically the Essene tradition of Judaism that survived by mutating and jumping into proselytizing non-Jews heavily
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
And rabbinical Judaism is the Pharisee branch of Judaism (Jesus' nemeses who are unfairly tarred with a broad brush in the Gospels)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Who maintained their identity by strongly rejecting a lot of ideas that the Essenes embraced that later became Christian
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A lot of metaphysical/mystical purity stuff - water baptism, demonology, a comfort w quasi-polytheism
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