A History of the Devil

Name: A History of the Devil
Brand: Oxford University Press, USA
SKU: ByrdShop_1568360819
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hardcover – January 1, 1996

by Gerald Messadié

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ISBN-13: 9781568360812 ISBN-10: 1568360819

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Binding

hardcover

Published

January 1, 1996

Weight

1.5 lbs

Dimensions

24.10×3.20×15.90 cm

About this book

A History of the Devil by Gerald Messadié. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781568360812.

A historian turned philosopher argues that evil arises not from the Devil but from the belief in one. He shows that the Satan of Judeo-Christian mythology was unknown to almost all other cultures, and was probably invented by Persian clerics about six centuries before our era in order to demonize their political adversaries. Translated and slightly revised from Histoire gTnTrale du diable published by Editions Robert Laffont in 1993. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.