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The Historical Mystery of Jesus
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Elaine Pagels
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a renowned National Book Award-winning scholar, an extraordinary new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of how a poor young man inspired a religion that reshaped the world.
“This a brilliant and necessary book. Sober, wise, respectful, and fearless."—Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America
"Pagels’ story is for believers and non-believers alike.”—Tara Westover, author of Educated
"The depth of spirituality she uncovers is profound.”—The New York Times Book Review
Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.
The book comes across like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?
The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave—no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.
In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract.
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Millions of readers have turned to Elaine Pagels for her clear and insightful books about the Gnostic Gospels, the teachings of Jesus that have been lost for centuries. Sounds True is proud to present the first widely available audio recording of this extraordinary scholar as she explores the text that has changed the way many of us think about the message of Christ: The Gospel of Thomas.
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Very interesting lecture
- De Drayton en 03-05-06
De: Elaine Pagels
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Reading Judas
- The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity
- De: Elaine Pagels, Karen L. King
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre, Robertson Dean
- Duración: 3 h y 45 m
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Two celebrated scholars illustrate how the newly discovered Gospel of Judas provides a window into understanding how Jesus' followers understood his death, why Judas betrayed Jesus, and why God allowed it. Presented with the elegance, insight, and accessibility that has made Pagels and King the leading voices in this field, this is a book for academics and popular audiences alike.
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Judas Iscariot: Betrayer or Saint?
- De Diane en 08-21-12
De: Elaine Pagels, y otros
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Ancient Christianities
- The First Five Hundred Years
- De: Paula Fredriksen
- Narrado por: Rachel Perry
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to dominate the politics and piety of the late Roman Empire? In Ancient Christianities, Paula Fredriksen traces the evolution of early Christianity—or rather, of early Christianities—through five centuries of Empire, mapping its pathways from the hills of Judea to the halls of Rome and Constantinople.
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Among the best
- De Jacob Kilgore en 04-17-25
De: Paula Fredriksen
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Beyond Belief
- The Secret Gospel of Thomas
- De: Elaine Pagels
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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Elaine Pagels, one of the world’s most important writers and thinkers on religion and history, and winner of the National Book Award for her groundbreaking work The Gnostic Gospels, now reflects on what matters most about spiritual and religious exploration in the twenty-first century. This bold new book explores how Christianity began by tracing its earliest texts, including the secret Gospel of Thomas, rediscovered in Egypt in 1945.
De: Elaine Pagels
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Lower than the Angels
- A History of Sex and Christianity
- De: Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Narrado por: Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Duración: 25 h y 37 m
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Few matters produce more public interest and public anxiety than sex and religion. Much of the political contention and division in societies across the world centres on sexual topics, and one-third of the global population is Christian in background or outlook. The issue goes to the heart of present-day religion.
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How God Becomes Real
- Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others
- De: T.M. Luhrmann
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people - as if they were standing right next to them? But it isn't easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion T. M. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effort helps to explain the enduring power of faith.
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An Exquisite and Thoughtful Reflection on Belief
- De L. Alexandra en 05-08-22
De: T.M. Luhrmann
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Shots Heard Round the World
- America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War
- De: John Ferling
- Narrado por: Jason Keller
- Duración: 20 h y 13 m
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Shots Heard Round the World is a bold, comprehensive rendering of the world war that erupted out of America’s battle for independence. Ferling highlights underestimated pivotal moments to reveal why the British should have put down the rebellion within a couple years of fighting. As European rivals France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic entered the fray, Britain’s problems grew, but after seven long years, the war’s outcome remained very much in doubt.
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A high school history
- De mona berrier en 04-02-25
De: John Ferling
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The Last American Road Trip
- A Memoir
- De: Sarah Kendzior
- Narrado por: Sarah Kendzior
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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It is one thing to study the fall of democracy, another to have it hit your homeland—and yet another to raise children as it happens. The Last American Road Trip is one family’s journey to the most beautiful, fascinating, and bizarre places in the US during one of its most tumultuous eras. As Kendzior works as a journalist chronicling political turmoil, she becomes determined that her young children see America before it’s too late. So Kendzior, her husband, and the kids hit the road—again and again.
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(another one of) sarah's masterpiece(s)
- De t43 en 05-13-25
De: Sarah Kendzior
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Authority
- Essays
- De: Andrea Long Chu
- Narrado por: Andrea Long Chu
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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Since her canonical 2017 essay “On Liking Women,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a public intellectual straight out of the 1960s. With devastating wit and polemical clarity, she defies the imperative to leave politics out of art, instead modeling how the left might brave the culture wars without throwing in with the cynics and doomsayers. Authority brings together Chu’s critical work across a wide range of media—novels, television, theater, video games—as well as an acclaimed tetralogy of literary essays first published in n+1.
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Her book reviews are fantastic
- De NMwritergal en 05-24-25
De: Andrea Long Chu
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Journeys of the Mind
- A Life in History
- De: Peter Brown
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 30 h y 20 m
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The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long engagement with this era, the widely acclaimed and pathbreaking historian Peter Brown has shown, however, that the "neglected half-millennium" now known as late antiquity was crucial to the development of modern Europe and the Middle East. In Journeys of the Mind, Brown recounts his life and work, describing his efforts to recapture the spirit of an age.
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The Last Dynasty
- Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
- De: Toby Wilkinson
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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Alexander the Great and Cleopatra may be two of the most famous figures from the ancient world, but the Egyptian era bookended by their lives—the Ptolemaic period (305-30 BC)—is little known. In The Last Dynasty, Toby Wilkinson unravels the incredible story of this turbulent era.
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Interesting history of an oft overlooked period
- De Tom en 05-07-25
De: Toby Wilkinson
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The Music of 1967
- A weekly look at America's top singles in the year of 'The Summer of Love'
- De: Ken F. Jarrell
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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The year 1967 has been considered to be one of the greatest years ever for pop music. The often-used descriptor for 1967 is that it was the year of ‘The Summer Of Love’. It was the year of the Monterey Pop Music Festival, LSD, Haight-Ashbury, Flower Power, psychedelia, hippies, Timothy Leary, ‘All You Need Is Love’ and the counterculture. While it may have been billed as the year of ‘The Summer Of Love’, Billboard’s top year-end singles of 1967 don’t show the list filled with psychedelic love anthems, especially among the the Top 10 singles of the year. The top single of the...
De: Ken F. Jarrell
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Inventing the Renaissance
- The Myth of a Golden Age
- De: Ada Palmer
- Narrado por: Candida Gubbins
- Duración: 30 h y 19 m
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From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance (we’re told) heralds the dawning of a new world—a halcyon age of art, prosperity, and rebirth. Hogwash! or so says award-winning novelist and historian Ada Palmer. In Inventing the Renaissance, Palmer turns her witty and irreverent eye on the fantasies we’ve told ourselves about Europe’s not-so-golden age, myths she sets right with sharp clarity.
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Completely changed my perspective of Machiavelli
- De Amazon Customer en 04-30-25
De: Ada Palmer
Meh
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Super Compelling
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Fantastic "Read"
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An insightful read into Jesus Christ
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Pagels Does not Disappoint
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Good conversation
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Not for the weak in faith
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“Miracles and Wonders” is the third book that I have read by Elaine Pagels and it is my favorite with one of the major reservations that I will save for last. First, the scholarship is first rate and the way she expresses her interpretations seems eminently fair minded. She is skilled at looking at controversies from various perspectives. She writes with elegance and lucidity and this is supported in the audiobook by a first class narration. I found the book to be fascinating . . . except for the last major portion of it when she falls off the cliff into some kind of sampling anthropological history. She is determined to share how Christianity has been interpreted in this and that microculture, book and film. Her bent is to show how Christianity seems to still inspire in positive ways. This struck me as weirdly myopic. We are immersed in a giant, Christian Nationalist political movement. No mention is made of this or other popular faiths such as the Gospel of Prosperity. Spare me the butterflies and unicorns of today’s Christianity. I would grade this a 4.5 if the choice were available marking off only for my last criticism..
All Wonders with One Exception
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Well Researched, Could Have Taken a Stand
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Elaine pagels is great!
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