Elaine Pagels

Elaine Pagels ( born Hiesey, born February 13, 1943 in Palo Alto, California) is Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University and has been known by several books on the apocryphal writings of the New Testament. She studied at Stanford University ( BA 1964, MA 1965) and received his doctorate at Harvard University. It belonged there to the team that investigated the Nag Hammadi writings.

She was married to the Heinz Pagels astrophysicist. In 1981, she was MacArthur Fellow.

Works

  • The Gnostic Gospels. Random House, New York 1979, ISBN 0-394-50278-7. German edition: Temptation by knowledge. The Gnostic Gospels. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1987, ISBN 3-518-37956-9
  • Adam, Eve and the Serpent. Random House, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-394-52140-4. German edition: Adam, Eve and the serpent. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1991, ISBN 3-498-05268-3
  • The Gnostic Paul: Gnostic Exegesis of the Pauline Letters. Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1975, ISBN 0-8006-0403-2
  • The Origin of Satan. Random House, New York 1995, ISBN 0-679-40140-7. German edition: Satan's origin. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1996, ISBN 3-518-39368-5
  • Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas. Random House, New York 2003, ISBN 0-375-50156-8. German edition: The Secret of the fifth Gospel: why the Bible tells only half the story. With the text of the Gospel of Thomas. C. H. Beck, Munich, 2004. 3rd ed dtv 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-34333-6
  • Apocalypse. The last book of the Biblel is decrypted. C. H. Beck, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64660-7
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