No book needed!
Satan's Guide to the Bible is a 2023 documentary by Zeke Pietstrup, in which Satan takes over a Sunday School session and teaches some kids lesser-known facts about the Bible, which they were unlikely to have learnt from their pastors.
This documentary features Dr. Bart Ehrman and Dr. Hector Avalos, among other biblical scholars.
Satan's Guide to the Bible is available here
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Satan's Guide to the Bible provides these following tropes:
- Artistic Licence – History: Discussed by Satan himself.
- Despite the Biblical narrative, there is no archaeological evidence that the Israelites came from Egypt or were enslaved there for centuries. Instead the evidence points that the Israelites originated in Judea, alongside their neighbors the Canaanites.
- The Book of Daniel is discussed as being set in the 6th century BCE but was likely written 400 years later during the Hellenic Period, explaining how Daniel's prophecies were so accurate about the period up to the Maccabean revolt in the 160s BCE. In Particular, a number of biblical scholars will argue the final chapters as being penned in 167 BCE as the prophecies become incredibly inaccurate after that point, missing the Maccabean revolt entirely and then going straight into the end of the world in chapter 12.
- Human Sacrifice: Discussed at one point, both the famous example of Jephthah's daughter from Judges 11 and one of the more disturbing interpretations of verses like Exodus 34:19-20.
- The Fundamentalist: All of the kids show shades of this, but Jen particularly stands out.
- The Golden Rule: Applauded by Satan as a humanistic moral code that can be universally applied. No book needed.
- Hippie Jesus: Downplayed; Jesus talks like one, but does not act like one.
- Narcissist: Jesus is depicted here as one.
- Satan Is Good: Satan is depicted as a benevolent teacher, spilling the lesser known Bible facts that were hidden from the kids by their pastor.
- Would Hurt a Child:
- God's smiting of all of the firstborn children of Egypt in the Book of Exodus.
- Jephthah's vow in Judges 11 is that he would sacrifice the first person he met when he got home in exchange for victory in battle. It turns out to be his daughter and he's compelled to go through with the vow in the end.
