The History of Evil in Antiquity 2000 BCE - 450 CE History of Evil Series

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 Upani?ads, 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.

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

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.