The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth

by Neil Forsyth

Overview

The description for this book, The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth, will be forthcoming.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691014746
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	12/21/1989
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	524
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Editorial 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

From the Publisher

[The Old Enemy] really is one of the dozen most genuinely brilliant and original works I've encountered in the past few years.

Commonweal - Jeffrey Burton Russell

. . . [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.

The Times Literary Supplement - George Steiner

[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

. . . [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