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Jeffrey Burton Russell

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January 01, 1943 in The United States

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History, Religion & Spirituality

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Jeffrey Burton Russell is Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Besides UCSB, he has taught History and Religious Studies at Berkeley, Riverside, Harvard, New Mexico, and Notre Dame. He has published seventeen books and many articles, most of them in his special field, history of theology. He is most noted for his five-volume history of the concept of the Devil, published by Cornell University Press between 1977 and 1988. He would prefer to be most noted for two more recent books, Inventing the Flat Earth (1991), which shows how nineteenth-century anti-Christians invented and spread the falsehood that educated people in the Middle Ages believed that the earth was flat, and A History of Heaven: The S...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 268 ratings · 29 reviews · 20 distinct works

	The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity 4.11 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1977 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History 3.73 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages 3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Satan: The Early Christian Tradition 3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Witchcraft in the Middle Ages 3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence 3.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A History of Medieval Christianity: Prophecy and Order 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	A History Of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, And Pagans 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating: