S: Yeah. So, for the Rabbis, [they] really believe that demons are capricious, dangerous, but not ultimately malevolent, as part of a way of understanding the whole world as created by a God who is not malevolent, at the very least. But I was really struck, in reading your book, about how so many of the early Christian writers really think that the world is fundamentally dark or bad. And what does it mean that they think that? What does it mean for their understanding of God, each other, and the environment in which they live, to encounter the world as malevolent?I have written about both demons and angels, mostly angels. The latter are at least as dangerous and frightening as the former.
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