Origin of Satan: The New Testament Origins of Christianity's Demonization of Jews, Pagans and Heretics
Elaine Pagels
Genre
Bibles & Bible Studies
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
5.19 (w) x 8.01 (h) x 0.64 (d)
Pages
240
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Date
April 1996
ISBN
9780679731184
Book ISBN 10
0679731180
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From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan's story into an audacious exploration of Christianity's shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike.
The bestselling author of The Gnostic Gospels--winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award--and Adam, Eve, and the Serpent has written her most provocative study of early Christianity yet--a profoundly controversial treatise on the true identity of the Devil.
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