Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Ask most people who Satan is and you'll get a very confident answer — almost none of which comes from the Hebrew Bible.

This episode, we walk through all 27 occurrences of the word "satan," from human rivals and battlefield opponents to a divine prosecutor working for God. We then traces how Lucifer, Beelzebub, Leviathan, and the serpent in Eden all got folded into one character centuries later.

The devil isn't in the details — he was assembled from them.

(This episode originally aired on August 7, 2023)

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Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to Data Over Dogma
0:35 Could It Be Satan?
1:17 Satan Isn't a Name
2:07 The Divine Prosecutor
3:07 Only 27 Occurrences
4:42 God Incites David's Census
5:39 Chronicles Rewrites It
7:20 Zechariah and Job
8:54 Sons of God, Explained
11:18 Job Is a Late Text
12:07 The Fall of the Angels
14:16 Belial and Mastema
15:27 Beelzebub, Lord of Flies
16:51 The Serpent Was a Snake
18:15 Lucifer Isn't Satan
20:04 Venus and the Vulgate
21:57 Lightning and Leviathan
25:27 Satan in the New Testament
25:49 The Zoroastrian Question
28:02 Everything Becomes One Figure
31:00 Thanks for Listening

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