01477cam a2200301 i 45000010008000000030006000080050017000140080041000310100013000720200015000850200018001000400080001180430012001980500016002100820016002261000030002422450045002722500012003172600038003293000028003675040051003955050309004465200232007556300024009876300025010116500016010367760123010524957501OCoLC20181127125505.0790419s1979    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a79004764  a0394502787  a9780394502786  aDLCbengcDLCdIAKdBAKERdBTCTAdLVBdYDXCPdOCLCGdHNWdCKLdGBVCPdOCLCF  af-ua---0 aBT1390b.P3  a273.1bP33G1 aPagels, Elaine H.,d1943-14aThe gnostic Gospels /cby Elaine Pagels.  a1st ed.  aNew York :bRandom House,cc1979.  axxxvi, 182 p. ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aThe controversy over Christ's resurrection : historical event or symbol? -- "One God, one bishop" : the politics of monotheism -- God the father/God the mother -- The passion of Christ and the persecution of Christians -- Whose church is the "true church"? -- Gnosis : self-knowledge as knowledge of God.  a"A startling account of the meaning of Jesus and the origin of Christianity based on gnostic gospels and other secret texts, written almost 2,000 years ago, recently discovered near Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt"--Jacket subtitle.00aApocryphal Gospels.00aNag Hammadi codices. 0aGnosticism.08iOnline version:aPagels, Elaine H., 1943-tGnostic Gospels.b1st ed.dNew York : Random House, c1979w(OCoLC)631131080