Jeffrey Burton Russell
Jeffrey Burton Russell (born 1934)) is an American historian. He is now Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has also taught History and Religious Studies at Berkeley, Riverside, Harvard, University of New Mexico, and University of Notre Dame.
Works
He has published widely, mostly in the history of theology. He is most noted for his five-volume history of the concept of the Devil.
Other books include Inventing the Flat Earth (1991). It argues that 19th century anti-Christians invented and spread the falsehood that educated people in the Middle Ages believed that the earth was flat. He has also written A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence (1997), a study of the history of heaven in Christian thinking up toDante.
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