Centuries before the devil reached mainstream popularity, at a time when he was eternally feared and considered a looming threat on humanity, he made a strange appearance in a remarkable book. Have you ever heard of the Devil’s Bible?
Credit:
For this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Hugh Houghton, a professor of New Testament textual scholarship at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, and author and theologian Robin Nettelhorst, who currently serves as the president of Quartz Hill School of Theology where he teaches about the Bible and Biblical Languages.
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Copycat: The Life of a Medieval Scribe; Danièle Cybulskie; Medievalists.net; June 19, 2014.
Satanic Figures Across Multiple Religions; Catherine Beyer; ThoughtCo.; June 21, 2017.
Life in a Medieval Monastery; Mount Angel Abbey; Saint Benedict, Oregon; Retrieved May 2018.
Monks in the Middle Ages; Simon Newman; The Finer Times; Retrieved May 2018.
Codex Gigas; National Library of Sweden; Retrieved April/May 2018.