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  <name><![CDATA[Elaine Pagels]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Elaine Pagels is a preeminent figure in the theological community whose impressive scholarship has earned her international respect. The Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, Pagels was awarded the Rockefeller, Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships in three consecutive years.
As a young researcher at Barnard College, she changed forever the historical landscape of the Christian religion by exploding the myth of the early Christian Church as a unified movement.

Her findings were published in the bestselling book, The Gnostic Gospels, an analysis of 52 early Christian manuscripts that were unearthed in Egypt. Known collectively as the Nag Hammadi Library, the manuscripts show the pluralistic nature of the early church and the role of women in the developing Christian movement. As the early church moved toward becoming an orthodox body with a canon, rites and clergy, the Nag Hammadi manuscripts were suppressed and deemed heretical.
 

The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Critic’s Circle Award and the National Book Award and was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best books of the 20th Century.]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>    <born_at>02/13/1943</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Gnostic Gospels]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elaine Pagels]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Origin of Satan]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elaine Pagels]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Adam, Eve and the Serpent]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elaine Pagels]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elaine Pagels]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Gnostic Paul: Gnostic Exegesis of the Pauline Letters]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elaine Pagels]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Gospel of Thomas: New Perspectives on Jesus' Message]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elaine Pagels]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: Heracleon's Commentary on John]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elaine Pagels]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Reading Judas]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elaine Pagels]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Karen King]]></name>
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        <book id="6218027">
  <title><![CDATA[Master Classes #7]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Elaine Pagels]]></name>
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