MacArthur Fellowship (1981) National Book Award (1980) National Book Critics Circle Award (1979) Guggenheim Fellowship (1979) Rockefeller Fellowship (1978) Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities (2012)
Academic background
Alma mater
Stanford University (BA, MA) Harvard University (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline
History of religion
Institutions
Princeton University
Barnard College
Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey (born February 13, 1943), 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.
Her best-selling book The Gnostic Gospels (1979) examines the divisions in the early Christian church, and the way that women have been viewed throughout Jewish history and Christian history. Modern Library named it as one of the 100 best books of the twentieth century.
ElainePagels, née Hiesey (born February 13, 1943), is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton...
gnostic' category." Pagels 1989, pp. 28–47, "One God, One Bishop: The Politics of Monotheism". Pagels 1989, p. xx. Layton 1995, p. 106. Pagels 1989, p. xx. Deutsch...
of Complexity (1988). Pagels was a 1956 graduate of Woodberry Forest School in Virginia. The school awards The Heinz R. Pagels Jr. Physics Memorial Award...
ISBN 978-1426200427. Pagels & King (2007). Miller, David Ian (April 2, 2007). "Finding My Religion / Religious scholar ElainePagels on how the newly discovered...
Anaya José Andrés Ron Chernow Louise Glück Terry Gross Louis Menand ElainePagels Prison University Project Wynton Marsalis James McBride Abraham Verghese...
Gnostic Mythology. Nag Hammadi Studies 24. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1984. ElainePagels & Karen King Reading Judas – The Gospel and the Shaping of Christianity...
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This has recently been questioned by ElainePagels, David Frankfurter, Heinrich Kraft and John W. Marshall. Pagels, reviewing the literature, says that...
of their basic beliefs. Some historians such as Jerry H. Bentley and ElainePagels suggest that there is a possibility that Buddhism influenced the early...
male will enter the Kingdom of Heaven" (translation by ElainePagels and Marvin Myer in ElainePagels, Beyond Belief 2003, pp241f). The Second Epistle of...
Pagels is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ElainePagels (born 1943), American theologian Eva Pagels (born 1954), German field hockey...
Bentley Layton identified it as a Valentinian anthology of excerpts, and ElainePagels and Martha Lee Turner have seen it as possessing a consistent and Valentinian...
criticism The texts are referred to as the "Gnostic Gospels" after ElainePagels' 1979 book of the same name, but the term also has a more generic meaning...
Gnostic Society Johannite Church People Carl Jung Charles William King ElainePagels Gilles Quispel G. R. S. Mead Hans Jonas Helena Blavatsky Jules Doinel...
Athanasius called apocryphal writings, falsely presented as ancient. ElainePagels writes: "In AD 367, Athanasius, the zealous bishop of Alexandria......
Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity with ElainePagels (2007). She is the editor of Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism (1988)...
critics of the previous decades.[citation needed] Gnosticism scholar ElainePagels claimed in 2003 that the author of the Fourth Gospel was a Gnostic,...
Thomasine church beginning around the middle of the first century in Syria. ElainePagels dates the Thomasine community to around the time of the Gospel of John’s...
also heed Noah's call. There is no ark in this account. According to ElainePagels, "Rather, they hid in a particular place, not only Noah, but also many...
Gnostic Paul is a book by ElainePagels, a scholar of gnosticism and professor of religion at Princeton University. In the work, Pagels considers each of the...
Christian community already there, although he does not mention Peter. ElainePagels, professor of religion at Princeton and an authority on Gnosticism,...
42. Bullard 1970, p. 57. Bullard 1970, p. 59. Pagels 1986, pp. 269–270. Halvgaard 2017, p. 239. Pagels 1986, p. 269–271. Halvgaard 2017, p. 240. Halvgaard...
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