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Princeton University's Elaine Pagels is about the nearest thing there is to a superstar in the realm of Christian history scholarship. It is largely through her work that many understand the early non-Orthodox Christianity that she at one point dubbed (and later un-dubbed, finding the term imprecise) the Gnostic Gospels. She breaks new ground with the debut of Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity, her collaboration with Harvard Divinity scholar Karen King about the second-century "Gospel of Judas" that was made public last year...
...TIME: You and Karen write that the "Judas" author was angry, particularly at the Christian church's developing cult of martyrdom. You write that he conveyed "the urgency of someone who wants to unmask what he feels is the hideous folly of leaders who encourage people to get themselves killed in this way." Whom might he have meant...
...suggest that a believer should deny being a Christian, even if the penalty were death. But he challenges leaders who encourage people to "die for God" with what he thought were false promises - huge rewards in heaven, and guaranteed resurrection...
...with Reese connecting through traffic from the blue line for a second time, with help from Du and junior Jon Pelle. A flurry of penalties at the end of the period opened the door for Harvard to take the lead. Yale went on the power play when sophomore Jack Christian was whistled for cross-checking at 19:33, but the advantage quickly shifted the other way when the Bulldogs’ Page and Brad Mills were called for slashing and interference, respectively, as the final horn sounded. “We were guilty of [taking] too many penalties early...
...separately with the club sports office and the financial aid office this week to discuss the legislation. Harvard club sports are currently funded at a rate below that of peer institutions such as Dartmouth and Princeton, according to statistics cited in the UC legislation. —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...