![]() ![]() Writing during and just after the Jewish war against Rome, the evangelists invoked Satan to portray their Jewish enemies as God's enemies too. The second tells of the bitter conflict between the followers of Jesus and their fellow Jews, a conflict in which the writers of the four gospels condemned as creatures of Satan those Jews who refused to worship Jesus as the Messiah. ![]() The first is the story of Jesus' moral genius: his lessons of love, forgiveness, and redemption. In The Origin of Satan, Pagels shows that the four Christian gospels tell two very different stories. Who is Satan in the New Testament, and what is the evil that he represents? In this groundbreaking book, Elaine Pagels, Princeton's distinguished historian of religion, traces the evolution of Satan from its origins in the Hebrew Bible, where Satan is at first merely obstructive, to the New Testament, where Satan becomes the Prince of Darkness, the bitter enemy of God and man, evil incarnate. The gospel of Mark and the Jewish war - The social history of Satan : from the Hebrew Bible to the gospels - Matthew's campaign against the Pharisees : deploying the devil - Luke and John claim Israel's legacy : the split widens - Satan's earthly kingdom : Christians against pagans - The enemy within : demonizing the heretics Includes bibliographical references and index ![]()
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