Contents
- Part One: Ancient Enemies -- Huwawa and Gilgamesh
- Part Two: Rebellion and Apocalypse -- The Satan of the Old Testament
- Part Three: Gnostic and Christian Mythology -- The Adam books and the serpent's identity: Gnostic developments from Jewish apocalyptic
- Part Four: The Demiurge and the Devil -- Satan the heretic
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 Magazine
