The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth
By (Author) Neil Forsyth
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th February 1990
United States
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
809.93382
Paperback
524
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
482g
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"... [a] learned ... but also robust book... Forsyth is much at home amid the heroics, graphic laments and winged enormities and leviathans of the Sumerian, Hittite and Canaanite epic fables... He sees the narrative links between Marduk and Zeus, between the death-king Mor and the classical underworld. At the close of the study, the chapters on Augustine glow with intelligence and sympathy."--George Steiner, The Times Literary Supplement "[The Old Enemy] really is one of the dozen most genuinely brilliant and original works I've encountered in the past few years."--Jeffrey Burton Russell, Commonweal