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

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Elaine Pagels's Published Works

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Published Works

The Gnostic Gospels (1979) (293)
The Origin Of Satan (1995) (185)
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (1988) (143)
Living Buddha, Living Christ (1995) (124)
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (2003) (82)
What Became of God the Mother? Conflicting Images of God in Early Christianity (1976) (53)
The Johannine Gospel in gnostic exegesis: Heracleon's commentary on John (1973) (51)
IRENAEUS, THE "CANON OF TRUTH," AND THE GOSPEL OF JOHN: "MAKING A DIFFERENCE" THROUGH HERMENEUTICS AND RITUAL (2002) (51)
The Gnostic Paul: Gnostic Exegesis of the Pauline Letters (1975) (45)
Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity (2007) (39)
Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation (2012) (32)
The pneumatikos-psychikos terminology in 1 Corinthians : a study in the theology of the Corinthian opponents of Paul and its relation to gnosticism (1976) (29)
The Nag Hammadi Library in English. (1979) (26)
Seth in Jewish, Christian and Gnostic Literature (1977) (23)
Antony's Letters and Nag Hammadi Codex I: Sources of Religious Conflict in Fourth-Century Egypt (2010) (21)
Christian Apologists and “the Fall of the Angels”: An Attack on Roman Imperial Power? (1985) (21)
"The Mystery of the Resurrection": A Gnostic Reading of 1 Corinthians 15 (1974) (19)
Exegesis of Genesis 1 in the Gospels of Thomas and John (1999) (18)
The Social History of Satan, the “Intimate Enemy”: A Preliminary Sketch (1991) (18)
Conflicting Versions of Valentinian Eschatology: Irenaeus' Treatise vs. the Excerpts from Theodotus (1974) (16)
Paul and Women: A Response to Recent Discussion (1974) (15)
High Priests of the Highest God: Third-Century Platonists as Ritual Experts (2010) (14)
“The Demiurge and his Archons”—A Gnostic View of the Bishop and Presbyters? (1976) (12)
A Valentinian Interpretation of Baptism and Eucharist — and Its Critique of “Orthodox” Sacramental Theology and Practice (1972) (10)
The Politics of Paradise: Augustine's Exegesis of Genesis 1–3 Versus that of John Chrysostom (1985) (9)
Human Rights: Legitimizing a Recent Concept (1979) (9)
The Valentinian Claim To Esoteric Exegesis of Romans as Basis for Anthropological Theory (1972) (5)
The Social History of Satan, Part Three: John of Patmos and Ignatius of Antioch: Contrasting Visions of “God's People” (2006) (5)
The Social History of Satan, Part II: Satan in the New Testament Gospels (1994) (5)
Gnostic and Orthodox views of Christ’s Passion: Paradigms for the Christian’s Response to Persecution? (1980) (5)
A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WEST , VOLUME I . FROM ANCIENT GODDESSES TO CHRISTIAN SAINTS (2007) (3)
Baptism And The Gospel Of Judas: A Preliminary Inquiry (2010) (2)
Treatise on Resurrection (2022) (1)
Adam, Ève et le serpent (1989) (1)
Holy Song of Thanks (2021) (0)
Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe 8 Contemporary Women Confessors (2009) (0)
Book Review:Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt Philip Rousseau (1988) (0)
God the Father/God the Mother (2019) (0)
20. Holy Song of Thanks (2021) (0)
Gnostic Visions and Revisions (1980) (0)
Book Review: Speaking in Parables (1976) (0)
The Triumph of Pessimism (1989) (0)
UCLA historical journal (2012) (0)
Sexuality and the Sacred in Gnostic Literature (2001) (0)
RESPONSE TO TILDE BAK HALVGAARD AND TUOMAS RASIMUS (2019) (0)
The Setting of Second Clement in Early Christianity . By Karl Paul Donfried. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1974. 240 pp. G 58. (1976) (0)
Pagels's Paradise Lost (1989) (0)
Voices of gnosticism: interviews with Elaine Pagels, Marvin Meyer, Bruce Chilton, Bart Ehrman, Karen King, Stevan Davies and other leading scholars (2011) (0)
Book Review: Gnosis: A Selection of Gnostic Texts 1: Patristic Evidence (1973) (0)

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