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Date Posted: 19:34:08 02/24/08 Sun
Author: Erin Risch
Subject: Satan the Accuser

I found this today in the material that I read for an on-campus Bible study, and I thought it was relevant to Girard's views on Satan:

Here are three definitions from The Complete Word Study Dictionary of the Old Testament

#7852 satam: verb, to hate; to bear a grudge against, to harass. It means to nurse hostility and bitterness toward someone; or even to attack or harass a person physically.

#7853 satan: verb, to accuse, to slander, and to harbor animosity toward. The verb is used only six times in the Old Testament and presents a negative attitude or bias against something.

#7854 satan: masculine noun, an adversary, Satan, and accuser. Used twenty seven time in the Old Testament. In Job it is found fourteen times meaning (the) Satan, the accuser.

This underscores not only Girard's emphasis of Satan as the accuser, but the connection between violence and accusing (in Hebrew the words are almost identical, satam and satan).

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