Evil and the Devil

The problem of evil has preoccupied world religions for centuries. The Old Testament contained no uniform dogma on evil powers, launching a fierce debate that has dominated theological and philosophical thought through the centuries to this day. Evil and the Devil brings together contributions from...

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Main Author: Koskenniemi, Erkki (Author)
Contributors: Fröhlich, Ida (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: London Bloomsbury Publishing 2013
In:Year: 2013
Reviews:[Rezension von: Evil and the Devil] (2016) (Morris, Michael J., 1983 -)
Series/Journal:The Library of New Testament Studies
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505 8 0 |a Contents; Tables; Introduction; Chapter1 The Devil in the Old Testament; Introduction; Satan-A Proper Name in the Old Testament?; The Concept of the Divine Council; The Divine Council Imagery in the Pre-exilic Yahwistic Monolatric Tradition; Exilic Apology and the Divine Council Imagery; Monotheistic Modification of the Divine Council; Rewriting Genesis 6.1-4 and the Origin of Evil Demons; Four "Satanic Verses" in the Old Testament; Conclusions; Chapter 2 Evil in Second Temple Texts; The Origin of the Evil in Qumran Tradition-The Story of the Watchers (1 En. 6-11) 
505 8 0 |a Sin and Impurity: Ethical (Prohibited) ImpuritiesThe Giants in the Enochic Tradition; Jubilees as a Narrative with Systematic Demonology; Demons and Spirits in Qumran Texts; Demons of Fever; Conclusion; Chapter 3 The Demonic World of the Dead Sea Scrolls; Introduction; The Demonic of the Enochic Tradition and Its Take-up in the Dead Sea Scrolls; "Demons," "Spirits" and "Angels" in the Dead Sea Scrolls; Chief Demonic Beings; Conclusion; Chapter 4 The Devil in Rabbinic Literature; Satan as Accuser; Satan as Tempter and Seducer; Satan as Adversary; Satan, Sama'el, and the Angel of Death; Summary 
505 8 0 |a Chapter 5 Miracles of the Devil and His Assistants in Early Judaism and Their Influence on the Gospel of MatthewIntroduction; Greek and Latin Demonology: From dai/monej to Demons; The Old Testament and the Septuagint; Early Judaism; Matthew: Do Not Try This at Home; Conclusion; Chapter 6 The Devil in the Gospel of Mark; Introduction; Mk 8.33; Mk 1.13; Mk 3.22-29; Mk 4.15; General Comments on Mark's Satanology; Chapter 7 Binding the Strong Man: Demon-Possession and Liberation in the Gospel of Luke; Introduction; Demon-possession and Exorcism in the Context of the Ancient Mediterranean 
505 8 0 |a Limited Good and Demon-PossessionExorcism as Political Action; Luke's Special Emphases in the Narratives of Exorcism; Chapter 8 The Believing Jews as the Children of the Devil in John 8.44: Similarity as a Threat to Social Identity; Jn 8.44 in Its Literary Context; Dualism and the Construction of Identity; The Social Identity Perspective; Conclusion: Similarity as a Threat to the Social Identity of the Johannine Community; Chapter 9 Paul and the Evil One; 1. Paul and Evil; 2. Figures of Evil; 3. Pauline Argument and Vocabulary of "Evil"; 4. Conclusion; Chapter 10 1 Peter and the Lion 
505 8 0 |a Intertextual BackgroundThe Accuser; The Predator; The Lion in Context; Why the Personal Evil?; Conclusion; Chapter 11 The Dangerous Loser: The Narrative and Rhetorical Function of the Devil as Character in the Book of Revelation; Linguistic Evidence; The Rhetoric of Revelation and Its Hermeneutical Horizon; The "Defeat of Satan" (Rev. 12): Present Time in Light of the Past as a Time of Threat from the Defeated; The Elimination of Satan (Rev. 20): Future as Certainty of Conquest in the Present; Conclusion; Chapter 12 "Evil is not a Nature": Origen on Evil and the Devil; The Origin of Evil 
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