Corrupting the Image 2 Quotes

“Love, real love, is sacrificial service to one another.”
― Douglas Hamp, Corrupting the Image 2: Hybrids, Hades, and the Mt Hermon Connection

“It is amazing (though not surprising, since the vision was from God) that John described not only a “great dragon”, but “a great, fiery red dragon” (Rev 12:3). How could John have known, humanly speaking, about the Mušḫuššu from hundreds of years before? John could not have known that the word, Mušḫuššu, could mean “fearsome” or “red,” or perhaps both. This is a strong testimony of the divine origin of John’s vision and of the accuracy of the entity John is describing.”
― Douglas Hamp, Corrupting the Image 2: Hybrids, Hades, and the Mt Hermon Connection

“Though we do not know his original name, we do know that the biblical appellations for him as “Prince of the Power of the Air” and “Heilel” are precisely what Satan was called in the ancient world.”
― Douglas Hamp, Corrupting the Image 2: Hybrids, Hades, and the Mt Hermon Connection

“Mount Hermon is in the vicinity of the region of Bashan, which was ruled by “Og king of Bashan … his territory … of the remnant of the giants, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, (Josh 12:4) and reigned over Mount Hermon, over Salcah, over all Bashan” (Josh 12:5).[178] Mt. Hermon is also known as Mount Bashan “A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; A mountain of many peaks is the mountain of Bashan” (Ps 68:15).”
― Douglas Hamp, Corrupting the Image 2: Hybrids, Hades, and the Mt Hermon Connection