about gender- and some class struggle among the first Christians.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carrol Cox
> Sent: 07/17/08 02:30 pm
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Saudi anti-Semitism
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> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> >
> > My recollection of this is dim and my knowledge is exceedingly thin,
> but many years ago I read a book by Elaine Pagels, then a prof of
> religion at Princeton, that impressed me as good deal. It was short, for
> one thing, and accessible to a nonspecialist. Called something like, The
> Origin of Hell or The The Origins of The Devil, but the title is
> misleading. It was all about the relations of early Christianity to
> Judaism.
>
> _The Origin of Satan_. It really is about the Origin of Satan, but it is
> a SOCIAL history, and that origin is rooted, among other things, in the
> xtian/Jewish split you describe. The title of the last chapter is "The
> Enemy Within: Demonizing the Heretics." It does offer an explanation of
> the origin and continnuation of anti-semitism, but it is really more
> concerned with undermining belief in Satan or "The Evil Other."
>
> Carrol
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