Origin of Satan: The New Testament Origins of Christianity's Demonization of Jews, Pagans and Heretics by Elaine Pagels

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(Paperback - First Vintage Books Edition)

  • Pub. Date: April 1996
  • 240pp
  • Sales Rank: 42,343

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    • Pub. Date: April 1996
    • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    • Format: Paperback, 240pp
    • Sales Rank: 42,343

    Synopsis

    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.

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    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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    Pagels, whose Gnostic Gospels (LJ 1/15/79) was a best seller and a major award winner, here examines the New Testament tendency to associate the Devil with Jews resistant to the teachings of Christianity.

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    Incredibly informativeby Anonymous

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    June 10, 2007: As an avid reader of Christian history, I read this book to help me get an understanding of Christianity?s central enemy. In Pagels? book, she gives a detailed explanation of Satan?s origins from the New Testament, but I admit I did not understand a lot of what she was talking about when she used numerous non-canon texts of Gnosticism. Granted, these texts give a non-standard description of Satan, the average reader would not comprehend what she was talking about when referring to books other than the four canon gospels. I suppose I should have read up on that, considering that Pagels is one of the leading scholars in the Gnostic gospels, to which she devoted an entire book to the subject. My suggestion is to read up on Gnosticism before divulging into The Origin of Satan, or you may get confused when dealing with some of the information in Pagels? book. That does not degrade this book in anyway. The information presented is excellent and vastly informative.

    AWESOME BOOKby Anonymous

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    January 13, 2003: Completely illustrates Christianity in such a way that you read the information and draw your own conclusions as to the meaning behind the message. Powerful! I recommend this book to anyone of any faith or lack of becuase the information is so interesting. Simply an AWESOME BOOK!


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