{"product_id":"miracles-and-wonder-the-historical-mystery-of-jesus-9780385547468","title":"Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom a renowned National Book Award-winning scholar, an extraordinary new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of how a poor young man inspired a religion that reshaped the world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEarly in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in \u003ci\u003eThe Gnostic Gospels\u003c\/i\u003e. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In \u003ci\u003eMiracles and Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave--no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMiracles and Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elaine Pagels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Doubleday Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385547468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2025 pg. 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2025 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eELAINE PAGELS is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. In 2015 she received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama, and earlier in her career was awarded a Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellowship in consecutive years. As a young researcher at Barnard College, she changed the historical landscape of the Christian religion by exploding the myth of the early Church as a unified movement. Her findings were published in the bestselling book \u003ci\u003eThe Gnostic Gospels \u003c\/i\u003e(1979), which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. Her subsequent books include \u003ci\u003eWhy Religion? Revelations\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReading Judas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Belief\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of Satan\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Adam, Eve, and the Serpent.\u003c\/i\u003e She has been profiled in \u003ci\u003eTime, The Atlantic, Vogue, The New Yorker, and Newsweek\u003c\/i\u003e's issue \"Women and Power.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46674115231958,"sku":"9780385547468","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/1660\/5398\/files\/img_aaa5806a-c5a6-4a0c-b6b0-eeb6fcf73950.jpg?v=1742808153","url":"https:\/\/tiabookcellar.com\/products\/miracles-and-wonder-the-historical-mystery-of-jesus-9780385547468","provider":"tia book cellar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}