Session # 3 Revelations - Visions, Prophecy & Politics in the Book of Revelation  by Elaine Pagels
Ch. 2 - Visions of Heaven and Hell
"The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible - and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares. ... Exploring how this book has fascinated readers for two thousand years tells us much about ourselves and about how religion evokes such powerful responses - for better and for worse - to this day.." p 1

Opening by Deb Charnusky.
These notes were not given in class. They are additional summary notes on the Chapter.
LINK - Session 3 - Notes on Chapter 2 - PDF format
LINK - Session 3 - Notes on Chapter 2 - Powerpoint format
LINK - Session 3 - Notes on Chapter 2 - Keynote format
LINK - Session 3 - Talk on Fora - "Elaine Pagels "The Truth About the Book of Revelation"
Chapter Times of Fora Video:

Following is the "Chapter" time slots for the Fora Video "Elaine Pagels - The Truth About the Book of Revelation".
When you click on the link, you will see the whole video is 80 minutes. It is a nice feature of the Fora presentations, that via the chapters you can click on any portion and just hear that.  On the monday session, to make a manageable 40 minutes, those chapters with an "x" in front were skipped over - including chapters about later sections of the book.

01 Introduction by Alexander Rose 01 min 10 sec
 x02. Long Short 03 min 22 sec
03. Introduction by Stewart Brand 2.3 02 min 19 sec
04. Elaine Pagels 8.0 07 min 53 sec
05. Who was John? 8.8 04 min 44 sec
06. Roman Rule 7.1 07 min 04 sec
 x07. Other Books of Revelation 9.0 08 min 59 sec
 x08. Other Applications for the Book of Revelation 7.0 07 min 01 sec
 x09. Throne Room 2.1 02 min 08 sec Q and A with Stewa rt Brand
10. mind change since gnostic gospels?1.8 01 min 48 sec
11. gospel of thomas? Q 02 2.8 02 min 45 sec
12. Revelation taught us about good and evil. Question 03 0.8 00 min 47 sec
 x 13. what brought this into canon? Q 04 heavy duty hope. vengeance. 01 min 57 sec
 x14. what about another end of the bible Q 05 00 min 55 sec
15. each generation has it?s ?end of the world? issues. Q 06 1.3 01 min 16 sec
 x16. people then in the desert possibly on drugs, Q 07 01 min 22 sec
17. my agenda is the right one. Q 08 2.2 02 min 10 sec
 x18. 2012 the end. attraction of finality. Q 09 02 min 08 sec
19. others have strong feelings about revelation. Q 10 2.4 02 min 25 sec
20. faust. hell interesting. heaven boring. athanaseus. Q 11 1.9 01 min 53 sec
 x 21. are there other religions with revelations - yesQ 12 01 min 43 sec
 x22. Q 13 00 min 37 sec
 x 23. Q 14 01 min 03 sec
 x24. what would pagels put in her canon? Q 15 03 min 51 sec
 x25. women. thunder perfect mind. feminine presence. Q 16 01 min 51 sec
 x26. mary the friend and mary the mother Q 17 00 min 55 sec
27. bible seems not to have feminine balance. Q 18 2.0 01 min 58 sec
28. christians are finding christian mysticism in these. Q 19 3.3 03 min 13 sec
29. Closing Credits 00 min 41 sec
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