The Evil Inclination in Early Judaism and Christianity
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The Evil Inclination in Early Judaism and Christianity

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The Evil Inclination in Early Judaism and Christianity

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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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. List of Contributors
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 Reconsidering the Semantics of the “Inclination” (yeṣer) in Classical Biblical Hebrew
  10. 3 The “Inclination” (yeṣer) as Rendered in the Septuagint
  11. 4 “Fleshly Spirit” and “Vessel of Flesh” in 4QInstruction and the Thanksgiving Hymns
  12. 5 Theological Anthropology in the Enochic Tradition
  13. 6 The Perils of Philosophical Persuasion: Philo on the Origin of Moral Evils
  14. 7 The Evil Inclination (yeṣer ha-ra‘) in Tannaitic Literature: Demonic Desires and Beyond
  15. 8 Conflicting Intrapersonal Powers in Paul’s Letters
  16. 9 The “Two Inclinations” and the Double-Minded Human Condition in the Letter of James
  17. 10 An Evil Inclination in the Early Targums to the Pentateuch and Prophets?
  18. 11 “Gnostic” Theologies of Evil
  19. 12 The Rabbinic “Inclination” (yeṣer) and the Christian Apocrypha
  20. 13 Origen on the Origin of Sin
  21. 14 Augustine on the Diabolical Suggestion of Sin
  22. 15 Jerome and the “Inclination” (yeṣer): The Evidence of the Vulgate
  23. 16 Rabbinic Inclinations and Monastic Thoughts: Evagrius Ponticus’ Doctrine of Reasoning (logismoi) and Its Antecedents
  24. 17 “Inclination” (yaṣrā) in the Syriac Tradition
  25. 18 Evil, Sin, and Inclination (yeᚣer) in Jewish and Christian Poetic Disputes between the Body and Soul
  26. 19 The Wizard of Āz and the Evil Inclination: The Babylonian Rabbinic Inclination (yeṣer) in Its Zoroastrian and Manichean Context
  27. 20 The Evil Inclination in the Targums to the Writings
  28. References
  29. Index of Names
  30. Index Locorum