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Evil in Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity

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How was evil portrayed in the Second Temple period and the earliest centuries of Christianity? This collection of essays by an international group of scholars, originating with a 2014 conference at St. Mary's University in Twichenham, represents the cutting edge of scholarship on portrayals of evil during this time.

Title Evil in Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity / edited by Chris Keith and Loren T. Stuckenbruck.
Contributors Stuckenbruck, Loren T. (editor)
Keith, Chris (editor)
Publisher Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck
Creation Date [2016]
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content An Ur-History of the New Testament Devil : The Celestial (śāṭān) in Zechariah and Job / Christopher A. Rollston -- Evil at Qumran / Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer -- Demonizing Sin? : The Evil Inclination in 4QInstruction / Benjamin Wold -- Evil and the Body of Antiochus IV Epiphanes : Disability, Disgust and Tropes of Monstrosity in 2 Maccabees 9:1-12 / Louise J. Lawrence -- Variants of Evil : The Disassociation of Jesus from Evil in the Text of the New Testament / Tommy Wasserman -- Jesus, Healings and Mark 2:1-12 : Forgiveness, a Release, or Bound Again to the Great Satan? / James G. Crossley -- Overcoming Satan, Overcoming the World : Exploring the Cosmologies of Mark and John / Christopher W. Skinner -- Darkness as Non-Being and the Origin of Evil in John's Gospel / Jonathan A. Draper -- How Much Evil Does the Christ Event Solve? : Jesus and Paul in Relation to Jewish "Apocalyptic" Thought / Loren T. Stuckenbruck -- Evil's Aetiology and False Dichotomies in Jewish Apocalyptic and Paul / James P. Davies -- Paul, Evil, and Justification Debates / Chris Tilling -- Evil in Ephesus : Acts 19:8-40 /Steve Walton -- Artemis, Demons, Mammon and Satan : The Construal of Evil in First Timothy / Lloyd K. Pietersen -- The Evil of the Tongue : Evil and the Ethics of Speech in the Letter of James / Susanne Luther -- A Theology of Evil in the Epistle of James : Cosmic Trials and the Dramatis Personae of Evil / Nicholas J. Ellis -- Apocalyptic Experience in the Theodicy of 4 Ezra / Robbie Griggs -- The Portrayal of Evil in the Ascension of Isaiah / Jonathan Knight -- "The Scriptures are Divine Charms" : Evil, Books, and Textuality in Early Christianity / Chris Keith -- Evil in Marcion's Conception of the Old Testament God / Dieter T. Roth -- Overcoming the Devil in the Acts of the Martyrs /Paul Middleton.
Series Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe
417
Extent viii, 417 pages
24 cm.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2016
National Library system number 990039145760205171

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