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      <name><![CDATA[Elaine Pagels]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is a truth, occasionally stated, and rarely followed, that before one adopts a faith, joins a religion, or becomes a member of an organized body of worshippers, one ought to understand, intimately, that faith and its implications.  One ought also to learn and understand how the faith started and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11587344">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Well-educated people wanting to understand sex and sin]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Book of Genesis is only about four pages long but its interpretation has arguably had more impact on the character of Western views on sin and sex than any other document.  Originally labeled heretical by the Pope, Augustine's reading of Genesis was later lobbied not only into acceptance but dom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1190385">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my second favorite Pagels book, after The Gnostic Gospels. The book most contains quotes and analysis of early Christian (and some contemporary Jewish) thinkers from Jerome to Augustine and Julian of Eclanum. While nominally about sexual mores, the book thoroughly explores the idea of free ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15175912">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38848068">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[all women]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[I read all her publications]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 28 21:36:49 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 28 21:45:39 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ms. Pagels scholarship in the area of early Christian writing is again impressive. In this work she reviews the Judeo-Christian creation myth and its permutations in gender relations. The story is worth the effort to read if only to give one a historical perspective on women's rights or lack thereof...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38848068">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This woman is a Gnostic genius. If you have any religious training, and are ready to open your mind and consider another viewpoint, please allow Elaine Pagels to be your devil's advocate. I promise you she won't disappoint]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm reading this one for my book group too.  I generally enjoy Pagels work, so I'm sure I will like this one too.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book to be helpful in the development of a definition of sacred sexuality.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="71196834">
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    <body><![CDATA[Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (Vintage) by Elaine Pagels (1989)]]></body>
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    <review id="18060452">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent insights from a scholar on the formation of the early Christian church. Her thesis is that “certain ideas—in particular, ideas concerning sexuality, moral freedom, and human value—took their definitive form during the first four centuries as interpretations of the Genesis creation st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18060452">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://eska-rina.livejournal.com/418155.html" title="http://eska-rina.livejournal.com/418155.html">http://eska-rina.livejournal.com/418155....</a><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book tries to show how the interpretation of the Genesis account changed over time.  In the beginning, when Christianity was an outlaw cult, Genesis was interpreted as proof of individual human freedom.  Then when Christianity became the official religion of the empire, Genesis was re-interprete...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45025296">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36833620">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 03 11:47:35 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of Adam and Eve is, like, maybe the best, most important story of all time. (According to me.) So it's really fun to really dissect it and trace it's effect on everything that followed. Pagels focuses on different ways it had an impact on society and culture, and how it was interpreted (th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36833620">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15511">
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    <name><![CDATA[Gary]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Feb 02 11:40:05 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 02 11:46:06 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pagels suggests that the doctrine of original sin, especially as we have it through Paul and Augustine, is a revaluation of all values, not only in the context of the classical culture of Greece and Rome, but also of the Jewish culture from which it grew, and even in the development of some of the e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15511">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5863869">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book once many years ago -- high school or college days, maybe?  But after seeing Elaine Pagels speak last night about the gospel of Judas, and as my theological education is (hopefully) a little deeper now than it was then, I'd like to read it again.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating commentary on original sin, Stoicism and other religious matters. At least as the worldly scholars understand it. This is deep stuff and it made me examine more closely the doctrines I espouse.]]></body>
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    <review id="29198275">
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    <body><![CDATA[A study of sexuality in the first 4 centuries of Christianity. Intriguing. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always learn a lot from her books.]]></body>
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