How the Devil Got His Hooves and Horns
The Origin of the Motif and the Implied Demonology of 3 Baruch
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9204889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Kulik (0000-0003-3294-0905, Department of German, Russian and East European StudiesFaculty of HumanitiesThe Hebrew University of JerusalemMt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905Israel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 195-229 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Numen (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0029-5973 • E-ISSN: 1568-5276 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685276-12341263 |
| OpenAlex | W1974743432 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
This paper reexamines the problem of the origins of a popular medieval and modern image of the devil as an anthropomorphic creature with hooves and horns and seeks to reconstruct the analogous ancient image of a satyr-like devil as it could be witnessed in diverse sources, including Hellenistic mythology, rabbinic legends, and early Christian texts. It seems that, not belonging completely to any of these worlds, this therianthropic motif emerges from a complicated literary history wherein Greco-Roman Pan, Jewish seirim , and other mythological figures graft themselves and their imagery around the forces of the demonic. The main argument of the paper as a whole centers around the place of 3 Baruch in this complicated history. This composition may contain the only physical description and detailed treatment of demonic seirim -satyrs in early Jewish literature and the earliest notion of satyr-like demons available to us
Aesthetics · Art · Demonology · History of religions · Judaism · Literature · Motif (music) · Mythology · Theology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |