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The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

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Name: Elaine Hiesey Pagels
Birth Date: February 13, 1943
Place of Birth: Palo Alto, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: historian

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Biography of Elaine Hiesey Pagels
925 words, approx. 3.1 pages
Elaine Hiesey Pagels (born 1943), historian of religion, was a leading interpreter of the Nag Hammadi gnostic texts and their implications for understanding the origins and development of Christianity. Elaine Hiesey Pagels was born on February 13, 1943,...


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The Gnostic Gospels Information
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Part of a series on Gnosticism History of Gnosticism Early Gnosticism Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism Gnosticism in modern times Proto-Gnostics Philo Valentinius Cerinthus Basilides Gnostic texts Gnostic Gospels Nag Hammadi library Codex Tchacos Bruce Codex...


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The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
The Gospel of Mary: Beyond a Gnostic and a Biblical Mary Magdalene
07/01/2005: 732 words, approx. 2 pages
ESTHER A. DE BOER, The Gospel of Mary: Beyond a Gnostic and a Biblical Mary Magdalene (JSNTSup 260; London/New York: Clark, 2004). Pp. χ + 248. $125. This is the second work de Boer has written on Mary Magdalene: the first was a...
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Presbyterian Record
Debating the historical Christ: the Gnostic gospels are old news in a modern context.
01/01/2007: 3,364 words, approx. 11 pages
It is easy to blame author Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. which has sold more than 61 million copies worldwide in 45 languages and is now the eighth-best-selling book of all time. for sparking a renewed interest in the Gnostic gospels and related...
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The New York Observer
The Da Vinci Code: What's That on Her Neck?
5/25/2006: 541 words, approx. 2 pages
Again, I'd quarrel with anyone who says this film is antireligious. It's pro-religious. Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou (What's that on her neck?) both seek spiritual knowledge. They want to know who and where the Holy Grail is, and they find out in the transcendent...
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AP News
Easter prime marketing time for skeptics
4/5/2007: 883 words, approx. 3 pages
It's a predictable part of the Easter season: The period of reflection on the Crucifixion and Resurrection has become a popular time for marketers to roll out works _ from the scholarly to the sensational _ that challenge Christianity's core beliefs.In the last several years,...
 


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