The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Neil Forsyth
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:524
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreLiterary studies - general
ISBN/Barcode 9780691014746
ClassificationsDewey:809.93382
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 21 December 1989
Publication Country United States

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Reviews

"... [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