Elaine Pagels on the Mysteries of Jesus
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. A co production of W NYC Studios and the New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, I'm David Remnick. Decades ago, in fact. Thirty years ago, precisely, I published a piece in the New Yorker with the title
The devil problem. It was a profile of Elaine Pagles, a scholar of Early Christianity I would also Improbably.
A best selling author. Hagels' nineteen seventy nine book, The Gnostic Gospels. Was scholarly and a rigorous. But also accessible outside the academy and widely read.
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