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The Old Enemy

Satan and the Combat Myth

Neil Forsyth author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Published:1st Jul '92

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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

ISBN: 9780691014746

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 482g

524 pages