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The Social History of Satan, Part Three: John of Patmos and Ignatius of Antioch: Contrasting Visions of “God's People”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2006

Elaine H. Pagels
Elaine H. Pagels
Affiliation:
Princeton University
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At the climactic moment of the cosmic drama in the book of Revelation, the seer tells how two great portents appeared in heaven, the first a woman “clothed with the sun”(12:1). Asin a dream, the scene changes, and he sees her pregnant, “crying out in the agony of giving birth,” being menaced by a “great red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on each of its heads” (12:3); thus the seer pictures Israel in danger, confronting her enemies, the foreign oppressors.

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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 99 , Issue 4 , October 2006 , pp. 487 - 505
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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