Satan’s Biography, from Beginnings to Pepys’s London
UCLA Faculty Center 480 Charles E Young Dr East, Los AngelesAnnual William & Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture Satan appears in the Hebrew Scriptures (Books of Job and Zechariah) as a celestial accuser and prosecutor of humans, eager to uncover the vices that lie below seeming virtue; he is a figure on the order of our own J. Edgar Hoover. This characterization persists throughout the New Testament, with Jesus predicting...