Elaine Pagels
February 13th, 1943More accurately a scholar and repeatedly consulted on PBS specials on theology.
She was "...inherent in Palo Alto, California (1943). She's a educationalist at Princeton and she's top figure prominent for her work on immature Christian texts, especially the Gnostic Gospels - writings about Jesus from the glint to fourth centuries. She won the Disorder Text Award for her 1979 study The Gnostic Gospels (1979), which the Manufacturing Documentation named as one of the 100 best books of the 20th century.
The Gnostic Gospels begins: "'Jesus Christ rose from the flawed.' In the company of this lecture, the Christian church began. This may be the sincere element of Christian faith; guaranteed it is the top figure eccentric."
Her other books have available Adam, Eve and the Serpent (1988), The Daybreak of Satan (1995), Past Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (2003), and Next to Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Decisive of Christianity (2007)."
Elaine Pagels [Wikipedia]
The Gnostic Gospels
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Elaine Pagels
