My daughter says the 1917 JPS is a modified King James. This version is picked up in the Soncino Chumash which, as it happens, I most frequently use. So we should be on the same page> But I don’t see the word Lucifer.
She tells me that Lucifer is Latin for morning star and the reference stems from Isaiah addressing the king of Babylon, if I remember correctly. She points out that Christians look upon the serpent in the garden mentioned in the book of Genesis as something called the Devil, a considerable stretch from plain Hebrew text from where this Hebrew reader sits.
This entity called the ‘Devil,’ or ‘Lucifer’ is extra-Biblical. Monotheism does not allow power sharing between the singular divinity and another divinity-either as evil competitor or friendly companion, female consort what have you.
