Elaine Pagels

Professor of Religion, Princeton University

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Harrington Professor of Religion at Princeton University and co-author of Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity

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As a child, religion scholar Elaine Pagels had very little exposure to religion.

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As a child, religion scholar Elaine Pagels had very little exposure to religion.

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