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Elaine Pagels

Elaine Pagels

b. 1943

Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey, is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion Emeritus at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism.

2 books in collection

Recommended 1988

Adam, Eve, and the Serpent

Religion

Recommended 1979

The Gnostic Gospels

Religion