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Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, by Elaine Pagels; published 2003 by Random House, New York; reviewed by Frank Thomas Smith. Elaine Pagels, professor of religion at Princeton University, became famous – well, at least well known – with the publication of her book, The Gnostic Gospels, in 1979. She has written several other […]

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 at 17:18 | Comments Off on Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas

The Gnostic Gospels, by Eileen Pagels; review by Frank Thomas Smith In December 1945 an Arab peasant was digging around a massive boulder in Nag Hammadi, Upper Egypt looking for sabakh, a soil for fertilizing crops, when he found an large earthen jar almost a meter high. He hesitated to break it for fear an […]

Saturday, February 22nd, 2020 at 18:36 | Comments Off on The Gnostic Gospels
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