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[alexseanchai]

Attn: Jewish folks who read my journal! I have a favor to ask. Specifically, I have the impression that the "Judeo-" prefix in the italicized sentence to follow is somewhere from misleading to actively wrong. I wish one or two people with active familiarity with Judaism to confirm or deny this.

Haides should not be confused with the Judeo-Christian figure of Satan, for Haides is neither wicked nor a tempter.

(The problem is I really have no idea how much of the whole Satan/Lucifer/etc concept is derived from the Tanakh et al and Jewish thought and how much from the Old and New Testaments and Milton, Dante, et al and Christian thought. I know the Book of Job is pertinent, but that doesn't, like, help. And I do not want this project I'm on to misrepresent anybody.)

Thanks!

ETA: All answered, thank you!

Comments

[tptigger]

Our version of Satan is so far from the Christian version of the devil it's not even funny.
"Judeo-Christian" is a phrase I've learned to live with. I don't find it very helpful though: there's a lot of very real differences that people who are Christian don't seem to care to understand.
I've never heard a Jew use that phrase.

[alexseanchai]

Okay. So what I want to do is convince the team to take that phrase out of the thing we're editing. Thank you!

[tptigger]

Rereading the sentence: Yeah, make it Christian. :)

[alexseanchai]

Indeed. :)

[jadelennox]

Interestingly, I've gone the opposite way. "Judeo-Christian" is a phrase I've gotten tetchy about as I've gotten older. I think it has to do with learning the history of the word. There's mixed responses to the validity of the word among Jews, but these days it's so broadly used among philo-semites and Christian end-times Zionists that it feels icky.

(Also co-sign to the responses to your initial worry about Satan, alexseanchai. Good instinct.)

[alexseanchai]

:)