"Satan and the problem of evil charts the development of Satan traditions and the problem of evil, from the Hebrew Bible and its various translations in the Greek Septuagint, to Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, to the Greek New...
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"Satan and the problem of evil charts the development of Satan traditions and the problem of evil, from the Hebrew Bible and its various translations in the Greek Septuagint, to Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, to the Greek New Testament. It concludes by examining the writings of the early church theologians, from the late first century through the fourth century CE. Wright argues that these latter writers present a shift in the understanding of Satan to one that is significantly different from that found in the Jewish Scriptures, extrabiblical Jewish literature, and the New Testament"-- Cover
Origins of evil -- Satan and the Devil in the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint -- The Satan figure in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- The Satan figure in the Second Temple Period Pseudepigrapha and other Jewish writings -- Satan and his other names? -- Satan in the New Testament -- Satan and the Devil in the early church
