Abstract

Abstract This chapter traces the powerful influence of Psalm 91 in the New Testament and in the making of early Christian theology. In the gospels’ account of the temptations in the wilderness, Satan quotes Psalm 91 to Jesus. However, this reference is only a small part of a much larger role that the psalm plays in constructing the gospel narrative, most evidently in both Luke and Matthew. Early Christians used the psalm as a means of understanding Jesus’s messianic role as Christus Victor, linking the reference to the serpent to a Genesis passage concerning the Garden of Eden. Similar ideas occur in the Book of Revelation. That vision of defeating or trampling the serpent strongly influenced Patristic thought.

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