Best Picture was formed by two newspaper columnists, Kenny Farquharson (drums) and Euan McColm (guitar), who have known each other since they were young rival political editors on the Scotland on Sunday and the News of the World. Farquharson has form when it comes to making music with a bestselling novelist; he and Ali Smith were at Aberdeen University together in the early 1980s and would busk in Union Street, he on the bongos, she on the mouth organ. Allen, Roger (2015), Studying Modern Arabic Literature, Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-1-4744-0349-8 Lewis, James R. (2001), Satanism Today: An Encyclopedia of Religion, Folklore, and Popular Culture, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 1-57607-759-4

Russell, Jeffrey Burton. Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World (1990) excerpt and text search Main article: Devil in Christianity Names Illustration for John Milton’s “ Paradise Lost“, depicting the "Fall of Lucifer" Guiley, Rosemary (2009), The Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology, New York City: Facts On File, Inc., ISBN 978-0-8160-7314-6 This book explores the doctrine of angels and demons, answering key questions about their nature and the implications for Christians’ beliefs and behavior. 6. Christ is the victor over Satan.The Second Book of Enoch, also called the Slavonic Book of Enoch, contains references to a Watcher called Satanael. [48] It is a pseudepigraphic text of an uncertain date and unknown authorship. The text describes Satanael as being the prince of the Grigori who was cast out of heaven [49] and an evil spirit who knew the difference between what was "righteous" and "sinful". [50] In the Book of Wisdom, the devil is taken to be the being who brought death into the world, but originally the culprit was recognized as Cain. [51] [52] [53] The name Samael, which is used in reference to one of the fallen angels, later became a common name for Satan in Jewish Midrash and Kabbalah. [54] Judaism The sound of a shofar ( pictured) is believed to symbolically confuse Satan. Graham A. Cole (ThD, Australian College of Theology) is emeritus dean and emeritus professor of biblical and systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. An ordained Anglican minister, he has served in two parishes and was formerly the principal of Ridley College. Graham lives in Australia with his wife, Jules. Garland, David E. (2006), Hebrews - Revelation, The Expositor's Bible Commentary: Revised Edition, vol.13, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, ISBN 978-0-310-86624-4

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Some passages clearly refer to the satan, without using the word itself. [20] 1 Samuel 2:12 [21] describes the sons of Eli as "sons of Belial"; [22] the later usage of this word makes it clearly a synonym for "satan". [22] In 1 Samuel 16:14–2, [23] Yahweh sends a "troubling spirit" to torment King Saul as a mechanism to ingratiate David with the king. [24] In 1 Kings 22:19–25, [25] the prophet Micaiah describes to King Ahab a vision of Yahweh sitting on his throne surrounded by the Host of Heaven. [22] Yahweh asks the Host which of them will lead Ahab astray. [22] A "spirit", whose name is not specified, but who is analogous to the satan, volunteers to be "a Lying Spirit in the mouth of all his Prophets". [22] Book of Job The Examination of Job ( c. 1821) by William BlakeThe main deity in the tentatively Indo-European pantheon of the Yazidis, Melek Taus, is similar to the devil in Christian and Islamic traditions, as he refused to bow down before humanity. [239] [240] Therefore, Christians and Muslims often consider Melek Taus to be Satan. [239] [240] However, rather than being Satanic, Yazidism can be understood as a remnant of a pre-Islamic Middle Eastern Indo-European religion, and/or a ghulat Sufi movement founded by Shaykh Adi. In fact, there is no entity in Yazidism which represents evil in opposition to God; such dualism is rejected by Yazidis. [241] McMillan, M. E. (2011), The Meaning of Mecca: The Politics of Pilgrimage in Early Islam, London: Saqi Books, ISBN 978-0-86356-437-6 The Latin Vulgate translation of this passage renders Heylel as " Lucifer" [120] and this name continues to be used by some Christians as an alternative name for Satan. [120]

No man is an island”, the poet John Donne announced. Muriel Spark played with this notion in her early novel, Robinson, where a human-shaped island begins to affect a group of castaways stranded there. Islands have a long association with literature, providing a setting for adventure, rebirth and danger. From Treasure Island to Lord of the Flies, they explore us as much as we explore them. During the Second Temple Period, when Jews were living in the Achaemenid Empire, Judaism was heavily influenced by Zoroastrianism, the religion of the Achaemenids. [34] [8] [35] Jewish conceptions of Satan were impacted by Angra Mainyu, [8] [36] the Zoroastrian spirit of evil, darkness, and ignorance. [8] In the Septuagint, the Hebrew ha-Satan in Job and Zechariah is translated by the Greek word diabolos (slanderer), the same word in the Greek New Testament from which the English word " devil" is derived. [37] Where satan is used to refer to human enemies in the Hebrew Bible, such as Hadad the Edomite and Rezon the Syrian, the word is left untranslated but transliterated in the Greek as satan, a neologism in Greek. [37] Caldwell, William. "The Doctrine of Satan: III. In the New Testament", The Biblical World, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Mar., 1913), pp.167–172 in JSTOR a b Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition, by Jan Harold Brunvand, ABC-CLIO, 31 Jul 2012 pp. 694–695Davies, Douglas J. (2010). Fallen Joseph Smith, Jesus, and Satanic Opposition: Atonement, Evil and the Mormon Vision. University of Durham, UK. ISBN 978-1-4094-0830-7. A rogue cop who won’t stay retired has even les Hebrew: שָּׂטָן, romanized: sāṭān, lit. 'adversary'; [1] Ancient Greek: ὁ σατανᾶς or σατάν, ho satanas/satan; [2] Arabic: الشَّيطان ash-shayṭān, lit. 'astray', 'distant', or sometimes 'devil' Birgül Açikyildiz The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion I.B.Tauris 2014 ISBN 978-0-857-72061-0 p. 74 For the next thirty-three years, James made no known recordings and performed sporadically. He was virtually unknown to the general public until about 1960. Blues singer and guitarist Big Joe Williams believed that James had already passed, having been murdered in Mississippi. [9] In 1964, blues enthusiasts John Fahey, Bill Barth, and Henry Vestine found him in a hospital in Tunica, Mississippi. [10] According to Calt, the "rediscovery" of both James and Son House at virtually the same time was the start of the blues revival in the United States. [4]