The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity

First volume of Jeffrey Burton Russell's four-volume Cornell University Press history of the devil figure across Western religious tradition. Covers the pre-Christian and early-Christian period (antiquity through the second century CE). Sequels: Satan: The Early Christian Tradition (1981), Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages (1984), Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World (1986).