Posted: Apr 04, 2015 9:12 am
wunksta wrote:
IIRC, Satan was always considered an agent of God directly. Someone whose task was to deliberately tempt mankind and lead him astray. It was only in Christianity that the idea of him becoming some renegade angel came into mythology, most likely based on Isaiah 14:12 (which was referencing a specific person, not Satan) and Revelation and the later extra-canon works like Paradise Lost and Dante's Inferno.
Again, this seems to have been a pre-Christian development in some intertestamental Judaisms, i.e. Essenism.