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The Evil Inclination in Early Judaism and Christianity

Editors:
James Aitken, University of Cambridge
Hector M. Patmore, KU Leuven, Belgium
Author: Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Tel-Aviv University

James Aitken, Hector Patmore, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Noam Mizrahi, Benjamin Wold, Loren Stuckenbruck, Sharon Weisser, Daniel Schumann, George van Kooten, Timothy Pettipiece, Monika Pesthy-Simon, Riemer Roukema, Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe, C. T. R. Hayward, Augustine Casiday, David G. K. Taylor, Ophir Münz-Manor, Yishai Kiel, Leeor Gottlieb

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Date Published: January 2021
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isbn: 9781108470827

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One of the central concepts in rabbinic Judaism is the notion of the Evil Inclination, which appears to be related to similar concepts in ancient Christianity and the wider late antique world. The precise origins and understanding of the idea, however, are unknown. This volume traces the development of this concept historically in Judaism and assesses its impact on emerging Christian thought concerning the origins of sin. The chapters, which cover a wide range of sources including the Bible, the Ancient Versions, Qumran, Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha, the Targums, and rabbinic and patristic literature, advance our understanding of the intellectual exchange between Jews and Christians in classical Antiquity, as well as the intercultural exchange between these communities and the societies in which they were situated.
- Each article examines a specific corpus of literature in which the contributor is a specialist to provide new insights for the discussion of evil as a major theological topic
- Provides new information that will help to date exegetical traditions and allow readers to set the New Testament and the early Christian movement more concretely within the intellectual milieu of late antique Judaism
- Advances our understanding of the intellectual exchange between Jews and Christians in classical Antiquity, as well as the intercultural exchange between these communities and the societies in which they were situated
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- Date Published: January 2021
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108470827
- length: 350 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 160 x 30 mm
- weight: 0.73kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction James Aitken, Hector Patmore and Ishay Rosen-Zvi
2. Reconsidering the semantics of the 'inclination' (yéṣɛr) in classical Biblical Hebrew Noam Mizrahi
3. The 'inclination' (yēṣer) as rendered in the Septuagint James Aitken
4. 'Fleshly spirit' and 'vessel of flesh' in 4Qinstruction and the thanksgiving hymns Benjamin Wold
5. Theological anthropology in the enochic tradition Loren Stuckenbruck
6. The perils of philosophical persuasion: Philo on the origin of moral evils Sharon Weisser
7. The evil inclination (yeṣer ha-ra') in tannaitic literature: demonic desires and beyond Ishay Rosen-Zvi
8. Conflicting intrapersonal powers in Paul's letters Daniel Schumann
9. The 'two inclinations' and the double-minded human condition in the letter of James George van Kooten
10. An evil inclination in early targums to the Pentateuch and Prophets? Hector Patmore
11. Gnostic theologies of evil Timothy Pettipiece
12. The rabbinic 'inclination' (yeṣer) and the Christian apocrypha Monika Pesthy-Simon
13. Origen on the origin of sin Riemer Roukema
14. Augustine on the diabolical suggestion of sin Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe
15. Jerome and the 'inclination' (yeṣer): the evidence of the vulgate C. T. R. Hayward
16. Rabbinic inclinations and monastic thoughts: Evagrius Ponticus' doctrine of reasoning (logismoi) and its antecedents Augustine Casiday
17. 'Inclination' (yaṣrā) in the Syriac tradition David G. K. Taylor
18. Evil, sin and inclination (Yeṣer) in Jewish and Christian poetic disputes between the body and soul Ophir Münz-Manor
19. The wizard of az and the evil inclination: the Babylonian rabbinic inclination (yeṣer) in its Zoroastrian and Manichaean context Yishai Kiel
20. The evil inclination in the targums to the writing Leeor Gottlieb.
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Editors
James Aitken, University of Cambridge
James Aitken is Reader in Hebrew and Early Jewish Studies at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. Publications include No Stone Unturned: Greek Inscriptions and Septuagint Vocabulary (2014) and The T&T Clark Companion to the Septuagint (2015).
Hector M. Patmore, KU Leuven, Belgium
Hector Michael Patmore is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the KU Leuven. His research focuses on the development of Jewish beliefs and the translation and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Antiquity.
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Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Tel-Aviv University
Ishay Rosen-Zvi is Professor in the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud at Tel-Aviv University. A scholar of rabbinic literature, he was elected to the Israel Young Academy of Sciences in 2013. He is author of several books, most recently, Goy: Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile (2015).
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James Aitken, Hector Patmore, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Noam Mizrahi, Benjamin Wold, Loren Stuckenbruck, Sharon Weisser, Daniel Schumann, George van Kooten, Timothy Pettipiece, Monika Pesthy-Simon, Riemer Roukema, Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe, C. T. R. Hayward, Augustine Casiday, David G. K. Taylor, Ophir Münz-Manor, Yishai Kiel, Leeor Gottlieb