The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics

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.

Author: Elaine Pagels
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/30/1996
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.20w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9780679731184
ISBN10: 0679731180
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity | History
- Religion | Christian Theology | Angelology & Demonology
- Religion | Theology

About the Author
Elaine Pagels is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University and the author of Reading Judas, The Gnostic Gospels--winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award--and the New York Times bestseller Beyond Belief. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.