The Gnostic Gospels
By Elaine Pagels.
Description
Sept. 1989 Vintage trade paperback{C} 9th printing. Elaine Pagels (The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics). In 1945 an Egyptian peasant unearthed what proved to be the Gnostic Gospels, thirteen papyrus volumes that expounded a radically different view of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ from that of the New Testament. In this spellbinding book, renowned religious scholar Elaine Pagel's elucidates the mysteries and meanings of these sacred texts both in the world of the first Christians and in the context of Christianity today. - Amazon - from Amzon
ISBN(s)
0679724532, 9780679724537
