Henry Ansgar Kelly. Satan: A Biography.(Book review) From: Biography | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: Morey, James H. | COPYRIGHT 2007 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Henry Ansgar Kelly. Satan: A Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. xiii, 360 pp. ISBN 0-521-60402-8, $19.99.

The distinguished former director of UCLA's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies here provides a comprehensive look at not just one, but two "biographies" of Satan. There is the "old" or "original" biography, based on a strict reading of biblical and apocryphal texts, where Satan is a neutral divine functionary with a job to do, and the "new" biography,...

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