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The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.

~Elaine Pagels

Topics: Challenging Church Gospel Judas Kind Leaders Literature Protest

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Unlike many deities of the ancient Near East, the God of Israel shared his power with no female divinity, nor was he the divine husband or lover of any.

~Elaine Pagels

Topics: Ancient Any Divine Divinity East Female God He His Husband Israel Lover Many Near Nor Power Shared Unlike

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About the gnostic writers themselves and the setting in which they lived we know little, although gnostic Christians were influential enough to be denounced at length.

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I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being religious means. A lot of people assume that if you write about early Christianity, you must be some kind of Sunday-school teacher.

~Elaine Pagels

Topics: About Assume Because Being Christianity Early Fascinating Find Idea Kind Lot Means Must People Problematic Religion Religious Some Struggle Study Teacher Write You

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Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.

~Elaine Pagels

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I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.

~Elaine Pagels

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At the end of the day I'll go to a yoga class. I used to say that my work was my yoga, because it stretches everything, expands and challenges everything you know and understand and are.

~Elaine Pagels

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For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament.

~Elaine Pagels

Topics: About Assumed Disciples Four Gospels His Jesus Most Nearly New New Testament Only People Sources Testament Tradition Were Years

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What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a monolithic Christianity and showing how diverse and fascinating the early Christian movement really was.

~Elaine Pagels

Topics: Christian Christianity Clear Discoveries Diverse Early Exploding Fascinating Gospel How Joined Judas Movement Myth Other Really Showing Spectacular

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Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long read in the Gospels of Mark and John that Jesus knew and even instigated the events of his passion, seeing them as part of a divine plan.

~Elaine Pagels

Topics: Divine Even Events Gospel Gospels His Jesus John Judas Knew Long Mark Part Passion Plan Read Seeing Sounds Startling Them

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: February 13th, 1943

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