In December of 1945, a pair of brothers digging for fertilizer near limestone caves near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi discovered an ancient red earthenware jar containing 13 papyrus ...

Elaine Pagels, a best-selling author and religion scholar at Princeton University, will be the featured speaker during the "Insights: A Series of Lectures and Talks" program April 2 at Trinity ...

Elaine Pagels, a best-selling author and religion scholar at Princeton University, will be the featured speaker during the "Insights: A Series of Lectures and Talks" program today at Trinity Episcopal ...

In 1945, two brothers dug for natural fertilizer beneath a cliff of Jabal al-Tarif in Upper Egypt. Their tools struck an ancient ceramic jar filled with books, hand-sewn in the manner of antiquity.

Pagels’ 1989 book The Gnostic Gospels was the first to offer a thorough and widely accessible account of a set of writings found in Egypt in 1945 that date back as early the second century and offer a ...

On a Zoom call from her neat, book-lined home office in Princeton, New Jersey, Elaine Pagels explains how her latest book, “Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus,” differs from her ...

WHY RELIGION? A Personal Story. By Elaine Pagels. Ecco. 235 Pages. $27.99. On a bright winter morning, Elaine Pagels ducked into the vestibule of the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York to warm up ...