"Arresting...brilliant...this book illuminates the angels with which we must wrestle to come to the truth of our bedeviling spritual problems." –
The Boston Globe "Pagels is a wonderful writer.... She has a gift for bringing ancient texts alive.... Fascinating." –
San Francisco Chronicle "Lively reading...a book that makes familiar concepts disturbingly fresh and provocative." –
The New York Times "Pagels has achieved something important.... Thoughtful scholarly works that are also original and adventurous are not common.
The Origin of Satan is such a work, and we should be correspondingly grateful." –
New York Review of Books "Lucid and closely reasoned.... Pagels remains always a lively writer who discerns the human implications of esoteric texts and scholarly disputes." –
Chicago Tribune
