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| relationship_id | subject_entity_id | relationship_type | object_entity_id | confidence | rationale | source_id | review_status | period_id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2426 | ENT_ISR_MASTEMA | aligned_with | ENT_ISR_SATAN | high | Mastema ("Hostility / Enmity") in Jubilees and Satan in Job and the DSS (especially the Community Rule and War Scroll) serve the same structural function — the adversarial/accusatory divine agent who tests, afflicts, and accuses humanity before God. In Jubilees 17:16, Mastema brings the accusation that prompts God to test Abraham (the binding of Isaac): "Mastema came and said before God, 'Behold, Abraham loves Isaac, his son, and he delights in him above all things. Tell him to offer him as a burnt offering on the altar.'" This is the exact role of the satan figure in Job 1:9-11. In Jubilees 48:1-18, Mastema actively assists the Egyptians against Moses — precisely the adversarial role the Devil plays in Christian typological readings. Most scholars treat Mastema as the Jubilees-tradition name for the same divine-adversary function that the DSS and later Christian tradition calls "Satan." Collins (2016) pp. 92-95. | SRC_JUBILEES | reviewed | PER_ISR_SECOND_TEMPLE |