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The evil inclination in early Judaism and Christianity / edited by Hector Patmore, James Aitken, Ishay Rosen-Zvi.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yetzer hara (Judaism).
- Good and evil--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Good and evil.
- Good and evil--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Sin--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Sin.
- Sin--Christianity--History of doctrines.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction / J.K. Aitken, H. Patmore and I. Rosen-Zvi
- Reconsidering the semantics of the "inclination" (yéṣer) in classical biblical Hebrew / Noam Mizrahi
- The "inclination" (yēṣer) as rendered in the Septuagint / James K. Aitken
- "Fleshly spirit" and "vessel of flesh" in 4Qinstruction and the thanksgiving hymns / Benjamin Wold
- Theological anthropology in the Enochic tradition / Loren Stuckenbruck
- The perils of philosophical persuasion : Philo on the origin of moral evils / Sharon Weisser
- The evil inclination (yeṣer ha-ra') in Tannaitic literature : demonic desires and beyond / Ishay Rosen-Zvi
- Conflicting intrapersonal powers in Paul's letters / Daniel Schumann
- The "two inclinations" and the double-minded human condition in the letter of James / George van Kooten
- An evil inclination in early targums to the Pentateuch and prophets? / Hector M. Patmore
- "Gnostic" theologies of evil / Timothy Pettipiece
- The rabbinic "inclination" (yeṣer) and the Christian Apocrypha / Monika Pesthy-Simon
- Origen on the origin of sin / Riemer Roukema
- Augustine on the diabolical suggestion of sin / Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe
- Jerome and the "inclination" (yeṣer) : the evidence of the Vulgate / C.T.R. Hayward
- Rabbinic inclinations and monastic thoughts : Evagrius Ponticus' doctrine of reasoning (logismoi) and its antecedents / Augustine Casiday
- "Inclination" (yaṣrā) in the Syriac tradition / David G.K. Taylor
- Evil, sin and inclination (yeṣer) in Jewish and Christian poetic disputes between the body and soul / Ophir Münz-Manor
- The Wizard of Az and the evil inclination : the Babylonian rabbinic inclination (yeṣer) in its Zoroastrian and Manichaean context / Yishai Kiel
- The evil inclination in the targums to the writing / Leeor Gottlieb.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Evil inclination in early Judaism and Christianity
- ISBN:
- 9781108557153
- 1108557155
- Publisher Number:
- 99986444071
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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