ORIGIN OF SATAN

From the editor: "This is a book that makes familiar concepts disturbingly fresh and provocative." -The New York Times

In the Old Testament he is merely the Adversary, a forbidding mem­ber of God's retinue. How then did Satan become the Gospels' prince of darkness, who brings about the crucifixion of Jesus as part of a cosmic struggle between good and evil? And why did Jesus' fol­lowers increasingly identify Satan with their human antagonists­first Jews, then pagans, and then heretics of their own faith?

In this ground-breaking work of religious and social history, the author of The Gnostic Gospels traces the relationship between the embattled members of a breakaway Jewish sect and the myth they invoked to explain their persecution. The Origin of Satan is at once a masterpiece of erudition and a book resonant with contemporary implications. For in its pages we come to understand how the gospel of love could coexist with hatreds that have haunted Christians and non-Christians alike for two thousand years.

Pages: 214
Special Interest: Theology, Satan, Religion, Satanism, Dark Angel, Occult, The Dark Side.

Our Price: $14.00