The Gnostic Gospels
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Winner:National Book Critics Circle Award -Criticism (1979)
A provocative study of the gnostic gospels and the world of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Sep 19th, 1989
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.20in - 0.60in - 0.47lb
- EAN: 9780679724537
- Categories: • Gnosticism• Christianity - History• Christianity - Literature & the Arts
About the Author
Elaine Pagels is the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of several books, including Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity, the New York Times bestseller Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, and The Gnostic Gospels, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. Professor Pagels lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Praise for this book
"The first major and eminently readable book on gnosticism benefiting from the discovery in 1945 of a collection of Gnostic Christian texts at Nag Hammadi in Egypt." --The New York Times Book Review