Ida Fröhlich teaches at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary. She is author of Time and Times and a Half a Time: Historical Consciousness in the Jewish Literatrue of the Persian and Hellenistic Eras (1996).Erkki Koskenniemi is adjunct professor of Biblical Studies at Abo Akademi University, Finland. He is author of The Old Testament Miracle-Workers in Early Judaism (2005) and The Exposure of Infants among Jews and Christians in Antiquity (2009).

A fascinating and comprehensive exploration of portrayals of evil and its power and influence on religious thought ... We have to congratulate the editors for producing a very fine work.

• Introduction1. The Devil in the Old Testament2. Evil in Second Temple Texts3. Demonic Beings and the Dead Sea Scrolls4. The Devil in Rabbinic Literature5. Miracles of the Devil and His Assistants in Early Judaism and Their Influence on the Gospel of Matthew6. Mark and the Devil7. Binding the Strong Man: Demon-Possession and Liberation in the Gospel of Luke8. The Believing Jews as the Children of the Devil in John 8.44: Similarity as a Threat to Social Identity9. Paul and the Devil10. 1 Peter and the Lion11. The Dangerous Loser: The Narrative and Rhetorical Function of the Devil as Character in the Book of Revelation 12. "Evil is not a Nature". Origen on Evil and the Devil13. Augustine and Evil

Ida Fröhlich teaches at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary. She is author of Time and Times and a Half a Time: Historical Consciousness in the Jewish Literatrue of the Persian and Hellenistic Eras (1996).Erkki Koskenniemi is adjunct professor of Biblical Studies at Abo Akademi University, Finland. He is author of The Old Testament Miracle-Workers in Early Judaism (2005) and The Exposure of Infants among Jews and Christians in Antiquity (2009).

A fascinating and comprehensive exploration of portrayals of evil and its power and influence on religious thought ... We have to congratulate the editors for producing a very fine work.

• Introduction1. The Devil in the Old Testament2. Evil in Second Temple Texts3. Demonic Beings and the Dead Sea Scrolls4. The Devil in Rabbinic Literature5. Miracles of the Devil and His Assistants in Early Judaism and Their Influence on the Gospel of Matthew6. Mark and the Devil7. Binding the Strong Man: Demon-Possession and Liberation in the Gospel of Luke8. The Believing Jews as the Children of the Devil in John 8.44: Similarity as a Threat to Social Identity9. Paul and the Devil10. 1 Peter and the Lion11. The Dangerous Loser: The Narrative and Rhetorical Function of the Devil as Character in the Book of Revelation 12. "Evil is not a Nature". Origen on Evil and the Devil13. Augustine and Evil