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The Gnostic Gospels
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by Elaine Pagels
A provocative study of the gnostic gospels and the world of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts.
Categories: Further Reading, Ideas that Shaped Our Modern World, Origins of ChristianitySubjects: Christianity, Gnostic Gospels, Gospel of Thomas, Jesus, Nag Hammadi
“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
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