The Evil Inclination in Early Judaism and Christianity

ISBN-13: 9781108470827 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 350 str.

Ishay (Tel-Aviv University) Rosen-Zvi

Opis

Explores the origins and development of the Jewish belief in the 'Evil Inclination' and the impact on early Christian thought.

Spis treści

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.