Jeffrey Burton Russell is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
All readers... will be enriched and stimulated by this honestly
presented biography of the Evil One. The Devil, in religious myth,
personal vision, and mystical reality, offers invaluable material
for reflection and meditation.
*Studia Mystica*
Russell is not only a conscientious historian, anxious to examine
in texts, myths, legends, art and literature the persistence and
transformation of a particular idea. He is also an introspective
essayist who acknowledges his own continuing struggle to understand
the nature and source of evil.
*New York Times Book Review*
This fascinating story of 'the Devil' explores the concept and
personification of evil (defined as 'the infliction of pain on
sentient beings') from its ancient beginnings into New Testament
times.
*Seventeenth Century News*
This is a serious work by a first-rate medievalist who has turned
his eyes to antiquity in order to elucidate the sources of man's
experience of the evil one. The result is scholarly, readable, and
comprehensive.... Russell's notations are copious and impressive,
attesting to the vast amount of research that has gone into this
study. The text is richly illustrated with some fifty well-chosen
plates.... An exceptionally lucid study and a major contribution to
the field.
*Review of Books and Religion*
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