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What Christians see, or claim to see, in Genesis 1-3 changed as the church itself changed from a dissident Jewish sect to a popular movement persecuted by the Roman government, and changed further as this movement increasingly gained members throughout Roman society, until finally even the Roman emperor himself converted to the new faith and Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire.
Elaine Pagels, PhD, is an American religious historian, professor, writer, and speaker whose research centers on early Christianity and Gnosticism. Her book The Gnostic Gospels, published in 1979, examines the diversity and the divisions in the early Christian church, and the way women have been viewed throughout Jewish and Christian history.
