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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | Elaine Pagels on the Book of Revelation | PBS

Duration: 07:17
Program: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly #1526
Broadcast Date: Feb. 24, 2012

Biblical scholar Elaine Pagels calls the Book of Revelation the "strangest" and "least understood" book in the Bible. "It's as though you take all of your nightmares about plague or destruction or war or torture or natural catastrophe, and you just wrap it into a huge single nightmare, and you get the Book of Revelation."

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Post Date: February 24, 2012