The History of Evil in Antiquity: 2000 BCE - 450 CE [Paperback]

This first volume of The History of Evil covers Graeco-Roman, Indian, Near Eastern, and Eastern philosophy and religion from 2000 BCE to 450 CE. This book charts the foundations of the history of evil among the major philosophical traditions and world religions, beginning with the oldest recorded traditions: the Vedas and Upanicads, Confucianism and Daoism, and Buddhism, and continuing through Graeco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian schools of thought. This cutting-edge treatment of the history of evil at its crucial and determinative inception will appeal to those with particular interests in the ancient period and early theories and ideas of evil and good, as well as those seeking an understanding of how later philosophical and religious developments were conditioned and shaped.

This first volume of The History of Evil will appeal to those with particular interests in the ancient period as well as those seeking an understanding of how later philosophical and religious developments were conditioned and shaped.

1. Ancient Israel  R?diger Schmitt

2. The Book of Job  Katherine Dell

3. Early Christian Thought  Charles Taliaferro

4. Saint Paul  Timothy Gombis

5. Early Zoroastrian Thought  Jenny Rose

6. Manichaeism  Michael Mendelson

7. The Gnostics  Giovanni Filoramo

8. The Presocratics  Vicki L. Harper

9. Socrates and Plato  Sophie Grace Chappell

10. Aristotle  Tom Angier

11. Epicureanism  Thomas A. Blackson

12. The Stoics  John Sellars