Abstract
In recent decades, scholars have taken great care not to assume that “the śātān ” of Job 1–2 and of Zechariah 3 is supposed to be archenemy of God and opponent of good, as is Satan in later Jewish and Christian literature. Nevertheless, scholars have yet to eliminate anachronistic assumptions from their discussions of this figure as he is presented in Hebrew Scriptures, maintaining that śātān in Job and Zechariah holds office of heavenly “prosecuting attorney” or “accuser.” After surveying uses of noun executioner and verb executioner in Hebrew Scriptures, this article argues that these words never denote “accusation” in this literature but refer exclusively to physical “attack.” This article further contends that in legal contexts noun executioner can refer specifically to an “executioner” and that “the Executioner” is proper understanding of the Executioner in Zechariah and Job.
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