Especially I wish to thank Lydia Bronte and Lita A. Hazen for their encouragement throughout the whole project. The present version of the book would have been impossible to produce without the superb editing of Jason Epstein, Vice President and Editorial Director of Random House; the excellent advice of John Brockman; and the conscientious work of Connie Budelis in typing and Barbara Willson in copyediting. Finally, I wish to thank my husband for his loving encouragement in the process of this work.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR E LAINE P AGELS earned a B.A. in history and an M.A. in classical studies at Stanford, and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. She is the author of Adam, Eve, and the Serpent; The Origin of Satan ; and the New York Times bestseller Beyond Belief . She is currently the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, and she lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with her husband and children.