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Article: THE ORIGIN OF SATAN
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- Jewish Exponent
- Article date:
- August 25, 1995
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Robert L. Wolkoff
Jewish Exponent
08-25-1995
THE ORIGIN OF SATAN.
Elaine Pagels, professor of religion at Princeton University, is one of today's leading interpreters of the world of early Christianity. She brilliantly shows how otherwise arcane theology is related to the social context in which it was created.
In this book, she turns her considerable gifts to the "invisible world" of spirits, demons and, ultimately the devil himself. She examines "specifically social implications of the figure of Satan: how he is invoked to express human conflict and to characterize human enemies."
With remarkable clarity, she traces the development of the concept of Satan and, with it, the Christian ...
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