The Evil Inclination in Early Judaism and Christianity

1. Introduction James Aitken, Hector Patmore and Ishay Rosen-Zvi; 2. Reconsidering the semantics of the 'inclination' (yéṣɛr) in classical Biblical Hebrew Noam Mizrahi; 3. The 'inclination' (yēṣer) as rendered in the Septuagint James Aitken; 4. 'Fleshly spirit' and 'vessel of flesh' in 4Qinstruction and the thanksgiving hymns Benjamin Wold; 5. Theological anthropology in the enochic tradition Loren Stuckenbruck; 6. The perils of philosophical persuasion: Philo on the origin of moral evils Sharon Weisser; 7. The evil inclination (yeṣer ha-ra') in tannaitic literature: demonic desires and beyond Ishay Rosen-Zvi; 8. Conflicting intrapersonal powers in Paul's letters Daniel Schumann; 9. The 'two inclinations' and the double-minded human condition in the letter of James George van Kooten; 10. An evil inclination in early targums to the Pentateuch and Prophets? Hector Patmore; 11. Gnostic theologies of evil Timothy Pettipiece; 12. The rabbinic 'inclination' (yeṣer) and the Christian apocrypha Monika Pesthy-Simon; 13. Origen on the origin of sin Riemer Roukema; 14. Augustine on the diabolical suggestion of sin Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe; 15. Jerome and the 'inclination' (yeṣer): the evidence of the vulgate C. T. R. Hayward; 16. Rabbinic inclinations and monastic thoughts: Evagrius Ponticus' doctrine of reasoning (logismoi) and its antecedents Augustine Casiday; 17. 'Inclination' (yaṣrā) in the Syriac tradition David G. K. Taylor; 18. Evil, sin and inclination (Yeṣer) in Jewish and Christian poetic disputes between the body and soul Ophir Münz-Manor; 19. The wizard of az and the evil inclination: the Babylonian rabbinic inclination (yeṣer) in its Zoroastrian and Manichaean context Yishai Kiel; 20. The evil inclination in the targums to the writing Leeor Gottlieb.