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The Book of Heaven: An Anthology of Writings from Ancient to Modern Times

Jeffrey Burton Russell

Heaven is not simply a theological, literary, or artistic phenomenon. It is experiential: in moments of play, of love, of passion, of unity, of selfless giving, of freedom, of...

Getting Satan Behind Us

Jeffrey Burton Russell

The Origin Of SatanBy Elaine PagelsRandom House, 214 pages, $23 Elaine Pagels, Professor of Religion at Princeton, is a distinguished scholar of Gnosticism and of the Nag Hammadi texts...