You claimed: "The Tanakh was completed in 450 BC ..." What I don't understand is why you made such a thoughtless claim.
None, which makes it even more curious that you would venture the claim. Perhaps you were just being sloppy ...
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Is the Name / Word Lucifer ever mentioned in the Quran or Judaic texts?
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EtuMalku
Abn Iblis ابن إبليس
The Megillat Esther (Book of Esther) became the last of the 24 books of the Tanakh to be canonized by the Sages of the Great Assembly. According to the Talmud, it was a redaction by the Great Assembly of an original text by Mordecai. It is usually dated to the 3rd or 4th century BCE (NIV Study Bible, Introductions to the Books of the Bible, Esther, Zondervan, 2002)
Does the word Lucifer appear in that text?
Just FYI: 450 BC =/= "the 3rd or 4th century BCE," the latter spanning the period 400 BCE to 201 BCE. And, yet again, as for the Tanakh's Daniel: "modern scholarly consensus considers the book pseudonymous, the stories of the first half legendary in origin, and the visions of the second the product of anonymous authors in the Maccabean period (2nd century BC). [wiki]" And, just in case you're having difficulty with these numbers, "" came considerably after 450 BCE.
Nope. Only once in Isaiah (in Hebrew).
gnostic
The Lost One
No.
Lucifer only appeared in the first place because of St Jerome was translating the Old Testament into Latin. The Roman god of the morning star was Lucifer, son of Aurora, goddess of dawn.
Later, in some English translations, particularly the KJV bible also used the word "Lucifer".
In Hebrew (transliteration) the morning star was written as helel. The morning star or helel was meant to be representation of the King of Babylonia, that he would build an empire, the empire reach its zenith, before it fall.
All ancient kingdoms and empires rise in power, but they will also decline or fall.
The prophecy in Isaiah 14:12 was mean to be about King of Babylonia, not Satan (or the Christian Devil).
When Christians began applying the verse 14:12 to Satan, they have changed the context of the passage, but they have ignore original intention of the verse.