[PDF.41gc] Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity (Cornell Paperbacks)

Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity (Cornell Paperbacks)

[PDF.kv98] Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity (Cornell Paperbacks)

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 | #338432 in Books |  1987-09-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.05 x.75 x6.08l,.94 | File type: PDF | 276 pages

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||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Highly Detailed!|By J. Mccormack|WOW! What a book, and what a history lesson. The first half of the book covers so much mythology, ancient Eastern views of evil, and enough odd names and stories to make your head spin. Yet all along you start to see some similarities shared and transferred from culture to culture, until you finally hit the second half of the book, which deals w| ||"Russell is not only a conscientious historian, anxious to examine in texts, myths, legends, art and literature the persistence and transformation of a particular idea. He is also an introspective essayist who acknowledges his own continuing struggle to under

This lively and learned book traces the history of the concept of evil from its beginnings in ancient times to the period of the New Testament. A remarkable work of synthesis, it draws upon a vast number of sources in addressing a major historical and philosophical problem over a broad span of time and in a number of diverse cultures, East and West. Jeffrey Burton Russell probes the roots of the idea of evil, treats the development of the idea in the Ancient Near East, a...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity (Cornell Paperbacks)   |  Jeffrey Burton Russell. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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