“The Cultural Impact of the Book of Revelation”
Elaine Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton UniversityThursday, December 3, 2009
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
In this lecture, Elaine Pagels places the book of Revelation in historical context and discusses who wrote it and under what circumstances, and why it was included in the New Testament collection. She also sketches the book’s enormous cultural impact in art, religion, and politics over two thousand years.
This event is free and open to the public.
