• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: The Social History of Satan, Part Three: John of Patmos and Ignatius of Antioch: Contrasting Visions of “God's People”
  • Beteiligte: Pagels, Elaine H.
  • Erschienen: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2006
  • Erschienen in: Harvard Theological Review, 99 (2006) 4, Seite 487-505
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1017/s0017816006001374
  • ISSN: 1475-4517; 0017-8160
  • Schlagwörter: Religious studies
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  • Beschreibung: 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.