The greatest trick the devil ever played was getting you to listen to this podcast episode. Join Tom, Dan, and Sarah as they blunder right into the Evil One’s hands by talking about the origins of Satan as a literary figure, legendary mythic adversary, and embodiment of evil. Beginning with some origins in the Hebrew Bible and moving quickly into some apocryphal texts and medieval reinterpretations, the Marathon dashes through the writings of the Second Temple period and the various takes by the Early Christian movement before getting bogged down in a devilish quiz about the many, MANY names the Prince of Darkness has gone by in his day. Contained within: snakes of many sizes (some rideable, some not), possible Gorilla Redeemers, and high-stakes fiddlin