" Revelations is a slim book that packs in dense layers of scholarship and meaning. Pagels has written what may be the masterwork in her unique career. Weaving scholarship with a deep understanding of the human needs to which religion speaks, Instead reinterpreted them-as Christians have done for two thousand years. Others seized on the Book of Revelation as a weapon against heretics and infidelsĮven after John’s prophecies seemed disproven-instead of being destroyed, Romeīecame a Christian empire-those who loved John’s visions refused to discard them and Soon after, Christians fearingĪrrest and execution championed John’s prophecies as offering hope for deliverance fromĮvil. On the pagan empire that devastated and dominated his people. Prophet and follower of Jesus, wrote the Book of Revelation, prophesying God’s judgment In the aftermath of that war, John of Patmos, a Jewish In the waning days of the Roman Empire, militant Jews in Jerusalem had waged anĪll-out war against Rome’s occupation of Judea, and their defeat resulted in the desecration Elaine Pagels explores the surprising history of the most controversial book of the Bible.
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