The Gnostic Gospels

Elaine Pagels

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 19, 1989 - Religion - 224 pages

A provocative study of the gnostic gospels and the world of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts.

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Gnostic Gospels
• Author: Elaine Pagels
• Edition: reprint, reissue
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1989
• ISBN: 0679724532, 9780679724537
• Length: 224 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Literature & the Arts; Religion / Reference; Religion / Spirituality