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May 2024
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#67 Elaine Pagels | What Are The Gnostic...

Alex J O'Connor
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Elaine Pagels 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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