| List of illustrations | p. ix |
| List of abbreviations | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Hebrew backgrounds | |
| The Old Testament | p. 13 |
| The first supernatural satan in the Hebrew Bible: the Angel of Yahweh and a talking ass | p. 13 |
| A Son of Elohim as a satan: the spy and tester of the Book of Job | p. 21 |
| A celestial satan as accuser: the trial of Joshua the High Priest in the Book of Zechariah | p. 23 |
| Revisions and translations: Satan and satans, Devil and devils | p. 28 |
| Apocryphal works and the Dead Sea Scrolls | p. 32 |
| Sins of Humans, sins of Angels: Genesis 1-11 and the Book of Enoch | p. 32 |
| Mastema/Satan and the Giant-Ghosts as punishers: The Book of Jubilees | p. 35 |
| Dueling dualisms at the Dead Sea: Belial, the Principle of Darkness, Lady Folly - but no Satan! | p. 41 |
| The New Testament: Satan comes into his own | |
| St. Paul, the first Christian writer | p. 53 |
| Thessalonians, 1 Corinthians: Satan as tester and punisher - and rehabilitator | p. 53 |
| 2 Corinthians, Romans: Pseudo-Angel-of-Light, due for a crushing | p. 59 |
| Other sinister figures: Beliar, the God of this World, the Elements, the Powers | p. 64 |
| St. Paul and the Wisdom of Solomon: on Adam, Eve, the Serpent, and the arrival of Death | p. 69 |
| The four Gospels | p. 80 |
| Satan in Mark, the earliest Gospel: testing and obstructing Jesus | p. 80 |
| Satan and Jesus in dialogue: Matthew's three-act drama of temptation | p. 84 |
| Luke's two books (Third Gospel and Acts): Satan in charge, and his predicted fall "like lightning" | p. 93 |
| Satan according to John: homicidal liar, and Archon of this Cosmos | p. 107 |
| Later Epistles | p. 114 |
| Pseudo-Paul 1: 1-2 Timothy, 2 Thessalonians: Satan and/or Devil | p. 114 |
| Pseudo-Paul 2: Colossians and Ephesians: the Heavenly Powers and Devil | p. 120 |
| The Epistle to the Hebrews and the Epistle of Jude: Devil as the Angel of Death - who deserves respect | p. 125 |
| Excursus: the non-Diabolical fall of the Angels in Jude and 2 Peter | p. 131 |
| Ecumenical Epistles: 1 Peter and James: Devil as lion, Devil as coward | p. 134 |
| The Apocalypse of John the Divine | p. 141 |
| Satan and the Angels of the Seven Churches | p. 141 |
| Dragon-Satan-Devil and his predicted ouster from Heaven | p. 147 |
| Another John, another world-view: Devil and anti-Christs in the Epistles of John the Presbyter | p. 159 |
| Excursus: Jesus as the good Lucifer in Revelation and 2 Peter | p. 164 |
| Putting the New Testament together: a composite portrait of Satan in canonical order | p. 168 |
| Gospels and Acts | p. 168 |
| The Pauline Epistles | p. 169 |
| The other Epistles and Revelation | p. 171 |
| Satan and Adam | |
| Satan's original sin: felling Adam | p. 175 |
| The early post-Biblical explanation: Satan fell because of Adam, Adam fell because of Satan | p. 175 |
| Satan's jealousy in the Life of Adam and Eve | p. 182 |
| The history of Iblis in the Koran | p. 184 |
| The rise of the fallen Lucifer | |
| Lucifer and the New Biography of Satan | p. 191 |
| Satan as the rebel Lucifer, well before Adam: the hijacking of Isaiah 14 by Origen of Alexandria | p. 191 |
| The slanderous New Biography of Satan: re-reading the Bible with Lucifer as God's enemy | p. 199 |
| Satan and his Angels as Pagan Gods: renouncing the Devil and his pomps | p. 208 |
| Satan and the Human Race | p. 215 |
| Mankind enslaved by Satan - and redeemed (purchased back!) by Christ | p. 215 |
| Satan and the Saints: straight man, fall guy, persistent meddler, bungling loser | p. 218 |
| Satan's last assignment: Superintendent of Hell and punisher - right now! - of damned souls | p. 229 |
| Theorizing Satan | p. 242 |
| Satan as a Pure Spirit: the synthesis of Thomas Aquinas | p. 242 |
| Satan and the Magical Malefactors: Sorcery Diabolized | p. 249 |
| Satan in literature and art | p. 265 |
| Literary and dramatic presentations of Satan: Dante, Milton, et ceteri | p. 265 |
| Satan in the visual arts: scary and suave | p. 277 |
| Satan in the modern world | |
| Temptation and possession | p. 299 |
| Satan as ever-present invisible Tempter: "The Devil made me do it!" | p. 299 |
| Pathetic marvels: the phenomena of Diabolical possession | p. 303 |
| Doubts and affirmations | p. 308 |
| Satan contextualized and demythified: the Reformed Reformer Friedrich Schleiermacher takes a hard look at the Bible | p. 308 |
| The many lives of Satan today | p. 315 |
| Summary and conclusion | p. 323 |
| Index of passages | p. 329 |
| General index | p. 336 |
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