The Gnostic Gospels (National Book Award Winner)
$36.98
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
19 September 1989
Summary
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • SELECTED BY THE MODERN LIBRARY AS ONE OF THE 100 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS
The landmark study exploring alternative perspectives of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts that could have shaped the religion differently if included in the Christian canon.
”[Pagels] is always readable, always deeply informed, always richly suggestive of pathways her reader…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679724537 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679724532 |
| Author: | Elaine Pagels |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 19 September 1989 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 131mm x 201mm |
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Critics Review
“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
Elaine Pagels
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.
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