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Demons and the Devil in Ancient and Medieval Christianity by Nienke Vos[Repost]

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Demons and the Devil in Ancient and Medieval Christianity by Nienke Vos[Repost]

Demons and the Devil in Ancient and Medieval Christianity (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae - Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language) by Nienke Vos
English | July 1, 2011 | ISBN: 900419617X | 270 Pages | PDF | 2 MB

This collection of essays approaches the role of demons and the devil in ancient and medieval Christianity from a variety of scholarly perspectives: historical, philosophical, and theological as well as philological, liturgical, and theoretical. In the opening article Gerd Theissen presents a wide-ranging overview of the role of the devil, spanning the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and patristic literature.