Research Catalog

Title

The evil inclination in early Judaism and Christianity / edited by James Aitken, Hector M. Patmore, Ishay Rosen-Zvi.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Patmore, Hector M.
• Aitken, James K. (James Keltie), 1968-2023
• Rosen-Zvi, Ishay

Description

ix, 371 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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 essays, which cover a wide range of sources including the Bible, the Ancient Versions, Qumran, Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha, the Targums 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"--

Subject

• 30-600
• Yetzer hara (Judaism)
• Good and evil > Religious aspects > Judaism
• Good and evil > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Sin > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

Call Number

JFE 21-4050

ISBN

• 9781108470827
• 1108470823

LCCN

2020028438

OCLC

1178636818

Title

The evil inclination in early Judaism and Christianity / edited by James Aitken, Hector M. Patmore, Ishay Rosen-Zvi.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chronological Term

30-600

Added Author

Patmore, Hector M., editor.

Aitken, James K. (James Keltie), 1968-2023, editor.

Rosen-Zvi, Ishay, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Evil inclination in early Judaism and Christianity Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781108557153 (DLC) 2020028439

Research Call Number

JFE 21-4050