Yves Darra

Yves Darra is a scholar who prepared a new translation of Ημερες Πυρος, titled Days of Fire. He was murdered shortly before the publication of the work in 2003.

Overview

Darra approached Days of Fire as an artistic work rather than a religious or philosophical one, comparing it to Ovid's Metamorphoses rather than the Book of Revelations. He was highly critical of those, such as Vera Sadry, who insist on interpreting it as prophecy, as this has given the text a bad reputation that discourages serious scholarship.^[1]

Darra was shot and killed in his office at Yale University on October 4, 2003 at 3:45 pm, fifteen minutes before Sadry was killed with the same weapon in Los Angeles. The weapon was then delivered to the Washington, D.C. home of Special Agent Woodrow Miller.^[2]

Darra appointed his frequent collaborator, Dr. Gretta Striker, as his literary executor, and she authorized the publication of Days of Fire along with documents related to Agent Miller.^[3]

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