Elaine Pagels
Elaine Pagels is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University and the author of Reading Judas, The Gnostic Gospels -winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award- and the New York Times bestseller Beyond Belief . She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Elaine Pagels is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University and the author of Reading Judas, The Gnostic Gospels -winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award- and the New York Times bestseller Beyond Belief . She lives in Princeton, New Jersey. See less
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Elaine Pagels book reviews
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Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity
Beyond Anger To Revelation
In April 2006, the National Geographic Society published an ancient text, the "Gospel of Judas" that had been discovered in the mid-1970s in Egypt. The original Greek text dates from about 150 A.D., ... Read More
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Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
Well Worth the Reader's Time
by jjares, May 10, 2016
Elaine Pagels first came to my attention on PBS; she was commenting on some facet of the Bible, the focus of the program. Since then, I've seen her a number of times when she has been interviewed ... Read More
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The Gnostic Gospels
Perfect match
This book came in just as I needed it for research. It fulfills what I had expected and it was a perfect match to other research books I had received earlier.
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