
The Origin of Satan
How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics
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Narrated by:
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Suzanne Toren
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By:
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Elaine Pagels
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. In The Origin of Satan, Pagels shows that the four Christian gospels tell two very different stories. The first is the story of Jesus' moral genius: his lessons of love, forgiveness, and redemption. 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. Writing during and just after the Jewish war against Rome, the evangelists invoked Satan to portray their Jewish enemies as God's enemies too. As Pagels then shows, the church later turned this satanic indictment against its Roman enemies, declaring that pagans and infidels were also creatures of Satan, and against its own dissenters, calling them heretics and ascribing their heterodox views to satanic influences.
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deceptive
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Very detailed but needs a different title
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Initially generic, later intriguing
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interesting
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Well said
Historical Information
Maybe more present day application would have took the book to that next level
Good Information
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Very informative!
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Fascinating history
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If you could sum up The Origin of Satan in three words, what would they be?
Not what I expected, need to listen again.Would you recommend The Origin of Satan to your friends? Why or why not?
Probably, only recommend to those who are interested in learning the historical origin of Satan.What about Suzanne Toren’s performance did you like?
Not bad, sometimes I had a hard time following her.If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Man Creates EvilInteresting
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level headed and informative
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