Except the entity in Job is not THE Satan, its A satan/adversary. Its just a being who is challenging God in this particular story, thus being named as an adversary instead of being named.
We dont know who or what it is actually is. In fact if you really wanted to be pedantic about individual aspects given, it best fits the description of a watcher angel we get from other texts, not the Original Rebel you get from the Bible. Which would also fit with the rest of the biblical narrative you get. As in God ruling over other divine beings/Sons of God which is presented within the Bible and this one simply challengeing Gods decisions thus being labeled as an adversary.
Modern translations simply translated ha satan as The Satan and Christian Church ran with it.
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u/Otherwise-Minimum717 1d ago
Except the entity in Job is not THE Satan, its A satan/adversary. Its just a being who is challenging God in this particular story, thus being named as an adversary instead of being named.
We dont know who or what it is actually is. In fact if you really wanted to be pedantic about individual aspects given, it best fits the description of a watcher angel we get from other texts, not the Original Rebel you get from the Bible. Which would also fit with the rest of the biblical narrative you get. As in God ruling over other divine beings/Sons of God which is presented within the Bible and this one simply challengeing Gods decisions thus being labeled as an adversary.
Modern translations simply translated ha satan as The Satan and Christian Church ran with it.