Jeffrey Burton Russell

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Jeffrey Burton Russell is Professor of History, Emeritus, 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. 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. Other notable books include Inventing the Flat Earth (1991), which shows how 19th 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 Singing Silence (1997), a study of the history and meaning of heaven in Christian thought from the beginnings to the time of Dante.

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