The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and HereticsFrom the National Book Award-winning and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Gnostic Gospels comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. "Arresting...brilliant...this book illuminates the angels with which we must wrestle to come to the truth of our bedeviling spritual problems." —The Boston Globe 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. |
Contents
THE GOSPEL OF MARK AND THE JEWISH WAR | 3 |
THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF SATAN FROM THE HEBREW BIBLE TO THE GOSPELS | 35 |
MATTHEWS CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE PHARISEES DEPLOYING THE DEVIL | 63 |
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