History of Evil in Antiquity - 2000 Bce - 450 Ce

List of contents

1. Ancient Israel – Rüdiger 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
13. Scepticism – Richard Bett
14. Neoplatonism – Kevin Corrigan
15. Philo of Alexandria – Marian Hillar
16. Evil in Graeco-Roman Religion and Literature – Rocki Wentzel
17. Vedas and Upanisads – Shyam Ranganathan
18. Buddhism – Peter Harvey
19. Ancient China – Randall L. Nadeau
20. Representations of Evil – Dale Jacquette

About the author

Tom P. S. Angier is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Chad Meister is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Bethel College, USA.
Charles Taliaferro is Professor of Philosophy at St Olaf College, USA.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Angier, Tom (University of Kent Angier, Tom Meister Angier, Angier Tom, Chad Meister, Meister Chad, Charles Taliaferro, Taliaferro Charles
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.06.2018
• EAN: 9781138642300
• ISBN: 978-1-138-64230-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: History of Evil
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, Philosophy, comparative religion, Theology, Religion and beliefs