{"product_id":"the-origin-of-satan-isbn-9780679731184","title":"The Origin of Satan","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the National Book Award-winning and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gnostic Gospels \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Arresting...brilliant...this book illuminates the angels with which we must wrestle to come to the truth of our bedeviling spritual problems.\" \u003ci\u003e—The Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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.\"Arresting...brilliant...this book illuminates the angels with which we must wrestle to come to the truth of our bedeviling spritual problems.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Pagels is a wonderful writer.... She has a gift for bringing ancient texts alive.... Fascinating.\" —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Lively reading...a book that makes familiar concepts disturbingly fresh and provocative.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Pagels has achieved something important.... Thoughtful scholarly works that are also original and adventurous are not common. \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of Satan\u003c\/i\u003e is such a work, and we should be correspondingly grateful.\" —\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Lucid and closely reasoned.... Pagels remains always a lively writer who discerns the human implications of esoteric texts and scholarly disputes.\" —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003eELAINE PAGELS is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University and the author of \u003ci\u003eReading Judas, The Gnostic Gospels\u003c\/i\u003e—winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award—and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eBeyond Belief\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.National Book Award-Winning Author of The Gnostic Gospels","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303989334245,"sku":"NP9780679731184","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679731184.jpg?v=1767740816","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-origin-of-satan-isbn-9780679731184","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}